White mass shooters are exempted from terrorism charges by being labeled lone wolves

Evidence

Therefore, Muslims are seen as terrorists even when performing acts utterly disconnected from that enterprise, while whites—like Roof and Tarrant—are overwhelmingly cast as actors behaving outside the accepted and understood boundaries of whiteness. Again, white culprits of terror are routinely called “lone wolves,” that is, one-off actors whose race exempts them from the very acts of terrorism members of their ideological flock commit inside the hallowed halls of Charleston churches, Pittsburgh synagogues, and Christchurch mosques. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 940

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Whiteness is categorically dissociated from the label of terrorism regardless of evidence (similarity 0.85)
• White perpetrators are categorically dissociated from the label of terrorism. (similarity 0.83)
• The lone-wolf label mirrors white terrorists’ own self-framing as ordinary men (similarity 0.83)
• The Muslim-terrorism conflation distanced white wars and white terror from scrutiny (similarity 0.83)
• White supremacist perpetrators are rarely genuine lone wolves though framed as such (similarity 0.82)
• White supremacist terror is framed as individual acts while Muslim victims are deindividualized (similarity 0.81)
• Lone-wolf white terror is rarely ever actually isolated individual action. (similarity 0.81)
• State definitions of terrorism excluded white domestic bombers like McVeigh. (similarity 0.81)
• 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 0.80)
• White supremacist violence is analyzed without racial profiling theories. (similarity 0.80)
• White supremacist violence goes unlabeled as terrorism due to actors’ racial identity (similarity 0.80)
• White supremacist killers are prosecuted as hate criminals rather than charged as terrorists (similarity 0.80)
• The War on Terror’s framing made slain Muslims themselves bear guilt for their deaths (similarity 0.79)
• Terrorism is a racial construct that excludes white freedom fighters (similarity 0.79)
• Media individualism grants white terrorists dignity denied their victims. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Terrorism is a racial construct that excludes white freedom fighters #corroborates (0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 160