The lone-wolf label mirrors white terrorists’ own self-framing as ordinary men

Evidence

A “lone wolf,” the media has reported time and time again, a phrase reasserting the individuality of whites as the bodies of dead Blacks and Jews and Muslims lay before them and the ink of their manifestos spilled the truth of their political motives. The “lone wolf” dominating the headlines after a white terrorist attack, if you listen closely, sounds eerily similar to Tarrant’s claim that he was just another “regular white man.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 941

Categorization

• SEED: Could seed an essay on how media language grants ideological cover to white terrorism while criminalizing analogous non-white acts.
• XREF: connects to: Even ‘lone wolf’ radicals are radicalized through social pathways — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 184