I would not deign to interview him if given the opportunity, but I suspect that if compelled to explain himself, the Christchurch shooter would affirm the same things that practitioners of hate have always affirmed. That he did not particularly hate airplane pilots and college professors and so on. It was not personal. But he hated the spread of Islam. Why? It was going to do something sinister. What was that sinister thing? I suspect that he would not be able to give me a good answer.

QUESTION: This suggests hate often lacks a coherent underlying rationale — worth examining whether the same emptiness appears across different hate movements.

XREF: Connects to Hannah Arendt's banality of evil and the evasiveness of hate practitioners who can't articulate their actual grievance.

Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Gl…, loc. 815