Right-wing terrorists escape collective blame while Muslim violence is racialized.

Evidence

Although the Alt-Right movement inspires rightwing White extremists to kill, vandalize, and attack Muslims, Latinos, and African Americans; the government and the public refuse to acknowledge the danger these extremists pose to society. Shielded by White and Christian privilege, right-wing terrorists are treated as individual wrongdoers. Their targeting of an entire faith group is not perceived as contradicting American religious freedom norms. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 960

Categorization

• XREF: The asymmetry — individual wrongdoer vs. collective guilt — directly parallels the ‘lone wolf’ vs. ‘terrorist’ framing debate and connects to chapters 20-26 on the War on Terror.