White supremacist violence gains legitimacy from explicit government sanction

Evidence

“White supremacy also comes shrouded in the garb of government sanction,” wrote Zak Cheney-Rice in New York Magazine a day after the Christchurch massacres. Shrouded along with it is an unfiltered Islamophobia from these supreme rungs of entwined geopolitical and white power, which is, during a moment when the War on Terror is devolving into a race war, a deadly dialectic. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 925

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• XREF: connects to: Institutional authority figures sanction Iranian-American victims rather than their white assailants — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian…, 665