@Miraz Without diminishing the significance of those brutal (and presumably uncalled for) attacks, and the latent racism that is now becoming overt…if one has to go back over a century to find prior cases of terrorism (and only comes up with 2 instances), then it seems like your society has a pretty good claim to “this is not who we are”, at least on a comparative basis. (The problem of whitewashing history in settler colonies is not confined to NZ, of course, and aside from perhaps South Africa, none of us have yet done a great job of reckoning with it….)