Media individualism grants white terrorists dignity denied their victims.

Evidence

Brenton Tarrant was just a regular white man. “White Like Me” perhaps would have been a better title for his manifesto. Tarrant, widely dubbed a lone wolf terrorist, an individual acting alone, by reporters and news headlines in the hours and days to come, and acknowledged as an individual because of the color of his skin and the supremacy that his forefathers bequeathed to him, which lawmakers today protect at all costs. While his victims, and the millions of victims that his forefathers massacred in Australia and New Zealand, were never extended the dignity of being seen, or treated, as individuals. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 946

Categorization

• SEED: The ‘White Like Me’ inversion could anchor an essay on how the lone-wolf label ascribes individuality to whites and withholds it from people of color.
• XREF: connects to: White supremacist groups receive civil-liberty protections denied to Muslims. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 606