Elite equivocation on white supremacy enables violent right-wing action

Evidence

The unwillingness of our American commander-in-chief at the time to unequivocally condemn white supremacists should be deeply worrying because it seems to encourage some violent right-wing fascists to make the leap from online propaganda into real-world action (like we saw during the January 2021 violent pro-Trump insurrection at the US Capitol). — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 221

Categorization

• XREF: Links US leadership tone to real-world fascist violence—an instance of the state enabling Islamophobia that ties to the world-order thesis. — connects to: White supremacist attacks against any minority serve as roundabout strikes at Muslims — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 75; Lax US gun laws let white supremacist hate crimes threaten everyone — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 102; Whiteness does not guarantee affinity with white supremacist violence (+3 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 221

Related

• Lax US gun laws let white supremacist hate crimes threaten everyone (similarity 0.80)
• The hate driving white-supremacist terrorism is not personal but abstract. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Hate violence can be state-encouraged rather than merely irrational individual deviance #corroborates (0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 101
• Whiteness does not guarantee affinity with white supremacist violence #complicates (0.60)
• White supremacist violence kills nearly as many Americans as Muslim terrorism. #corroborates (0.55) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 480