Racist authority responses signal that bias against Iranians is acceptable.

Evidence

While National Safe Schools Week addresses peer-to-peer aggression, in this case, it was instead an adult authority figure that most severely sanctioned the victim. To Amir and Shahram, the message was clear: Racial slurs and threats of violence were acceptable at Woodward, and their presence as Iranians during the War on Terror was not. In fact, it was enough to provoke white peers into committing a hate crime. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 298

Related

• Institutional authority figures sanction Iranian-American victims rather than their white assailants (similarity 0.85)
• Iranian Americans are legally white but are routinely racialized as non-white in schools (similarity 0.79)
• Schools are the first institution to tell Iranian youth they are not really white (similarity 0.79)
• School officials punished the victim of a racial hate crime instead of its perpetrators. (similarity 0.78)
• Ethnicity, nationality, and religion cannot fully explain anti-Iranian bias (similarity 0.78)