The hate driving white-supremacist terrorism is not personal but abstract.

Evidence

I would not deign to interview him if given the opportunity, but I suspect that if compelled to explain himself, the Christchurch shooter would affirm the same things that practitioners of hate have always affirmed. That he did not particularly hate airplane pilots and college professors and so on. It was not personal. But he hated the spread of Islam. Why? It was going to do something sinister. What was that sinister thing? I suspect that he would not be able to give me a good answer. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 815

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 815
• XREF: connects to: White supremacist attacks against any minority serve as roundabout strikes at Muslims — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 75; Whiteness does not guarantee affinity with white supremacist violence

Related

• White supremacist attacks against any minority serve as roundabout strikes at Muslims (similarity 0.87)
• Counterterrorism targets Muslims while downplaying surging White supremacist violence (similarity 0.82)
• Lax US gun laws let white supremacist hate crimes threaten everyone (similarity 0.82)
• White supremacist violence is analyzed without racial profiling theories. (similarity 0.80)
• Nearly eight in ten US domestic terror attacks in 2018 were white supremacy motivated. (similarity 0.80)
• Muslims are uniquely cast as counterterrorism soldiers while white Americans never are (similarity 0.79)
• White perpetrators are categorically dissociated from the label of terrorism. (similarity 0.79)
• White supremacist terror is framed as individual acts while Muslim victims are deindividualized (similarity 0.78)
• The Muslim-terrorism conflation distanced white wars and white terror from scrutiny (similarity 0.78)
• The Great Replacement narrative exposes Muslims to threat from any direction worldwide (similarity 0.78)
• Powell’s study concludes that white, non-Muslim men who commit domestic terrorism or other mass shootings are frequently described as being ‘mentally unstable,’ whereas Muslim terrorists are… (similarity 0.78)
• Elite equivocation on white supremacy enables violent right-wing action (similarity 0.78)
• The Christchurch shooter targeted Muslims tactically as the most flammable group (similarity 0.78)
• White supremacist murders in the US more than doubled in 2017 (similarity 0.78)
• White supremacist killers are prosecuted as hate criminals rather than charged as terrorists (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Whiteness does not guarantee affinity with white supremacist violence #expands (0.70)