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Christchurch

Largest city in the South Island of New Zealand

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Dec 11, 2025
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What is the history and origin of the Great Replacement Theory?

The Great Replacement is a modern white‑supremacist conspiracy that claims elites are deliberately swapping native (usually white, Christian) populations for non‑white migrants; scholars trace its slo...

Dec 21, 2025
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Which extremist attacks have explicitly cited replacement rhetoric and what investigations concluded about motive?

A definable set of high-profile mass attacks over the past decade explicitly invoked or were later linked by investigators to “replacement” rhetoric — most notably the Christchurch mosque massacre, th...

Jan 3, 2026

How did Aldrin’s Antarctic visit connect to his legacy in space exploration and STEM outreach?

Buzz Aldrin’s December 2016 trip to the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station cast him as both an explorer and an evangelist for human missions beyond Earth, making him the oldest person to reach the Sout...

Dec 19, 2025

Were there any ideological, political, or personal motives cited in the attacker’s communications or manifesto?

The manifestos and communications examined across recent high-profile attacks overwhelmingly show explicit motives—ideological, political, and personal—though the mix varies by case: many perpetrators...

Dec 19, 2025

What evidence links racial motives to far-right or white supremacist gun attackers?

Evidence tying racial motives to far‑right and white supremacist gun attackers includes manifestos and statements explicitly targeting racial or religious groups, symbolic and ideological markers (swa...

Nov 12, 2025

Can The Great Replacement theory be linked to any specific instances of hate crime or violence?

The Great Replacement theory has been by multiple perpetrators of mass killings and hate attacks in recent years, with manifestos or online posts explicitly citing replacement, invasion, or “white gen...

Oct 16, 2025

Will we see mass ethnic cleansing in the west as far right idealogies become mainstream?

The short answer is: , but the risk of localized, violent episodes driven by radicalized far‑right actors has measurably increased. Electoral normalization of far‑right parties and documented extremis...

Oct 15, 2025

How does the bribery case against Tom Holman affect his business operations?

The available reporting shows *no consistent, direct evidence* that a bribery case against a person named Tom Holman has materially disrupted his business operations; the dataset contains one detailed...