Lone Wolf Race Warriors and White Genocide

When Brenton Tarrant live-streamed his massacre of fifty-one Muslims in Christchurch New Zealand in March 2019 he was but one in a series of lone-acting white men committing violent crime to further the radical white nationalist aim to save the white race from extinction and establish a white ethnostate. From where did white nationalists get the notion of an ongoing white genocide? Why should ''resistance'' against a perceived invasion of ''white'' territory be launched by individual ''lone wolves'' massacring noncombatants they have no prior relation to? How could slaughtering children be construed as a heroic act that a perpetrator wants to broadcast to the world? Based on a unique collection of interviews with lone wolves their victims and their supporters and a close reading of lone wolf fascist and radical nationalist material and communication this Element provides solid answers to these and adjacent questions of importance.