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Replacement anxiety: White supremacist terrorism

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The Economist

News, News & Politics

4.35K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, has left 50 people dead and a lot of unanswered questions. How big a threat are violent white supremacists? We take a look at a network of museums in China trying to commemorate that country’s murderous experience in the 20th century without offending the Communist Party. And our San Francisco correspondent goes in pursuit of free stuff - a lot of it-in the Bay Area.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to The Intelligence on Economist Radio.

0:07.8

I'm your host, John Pridot, standing in for Jason Palmer.

0:11.5

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

0:17.3

A property tycoon in China is setting up a string of private museums.

0:21.6

With 8 million objects, they're commemorating daily life and attracting plenty of visitors.

0:26.6

But they're also pushing the boundaries of what the party would like to be remembered and forgotten.

0:32.6

And then to San Francisco, a town whose entrepreneurial culture has also spawned a relentless pursuit of free stuff.

0:40.4

We look at how to eat, sleep, and be driven around in the Bay Area without paying a cent.

0:57.0

But first... New Zealand has spent the weekend morning 50 people who were killed

1:04.5

when a white supremacist gunman opened fire at two mosques during Friday prayers.

1:09.7

Dozens more are still in a critical condition in hospital.

1:12.7

Cabinet today made in-principle decisions around the reform of our gun laws.

1:18.0

Prime Minister Jacinda Adirn spoke to journalists today after meeting with Cabinet to discuss

1:23.0

changing gun control laws.

1:24.5

This ultimately means that within 10 days of this horrific act of terrorism, we will have

1:29.7

announced reforms which will, I believe, make our communities safer.

1:36.3

Almost all weapons, about 94% of New Zealand's weapons aren't registered.

1:40.3

Eleanor Whitehead is reporting from New Zealand for The Economist.

1:43.3

That makes it an outlier kind of almost anywhere in the Western world apart from the United States.

1:49.1

So it means that you can kind of stockpile weapons.

1:51.5

Brent and Terrant had a license.

1:53.2

He wasn't a prior offender.

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