Whiteness is categorically dissociated from the label of terrorism regardless of evidence
Evidence
Whiteness, regardless of the facts at hand and the slain bodies lying before it, is utterly disassociated from terrorism. Despite the mass terror committed in its name in the past, or the massacres it claims today, its hands remain clean of that indictment. Neither the power of statistics nor the force of history has been able to narrow the vast ocean that separates whiteness from the phenomenon of terrorism. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 934
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
Related
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- White mass shooters are exempted from terrorism charges by being labeled lone wolves (similarity 0.85)
- State definitions of terrorism excluded white domestic bombers like McVeigh. (similarity 0.85)
- Whites are framed as individuals while Muslims are framed as an ominous monolith (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)
- Comparative coverage grants white victims instant humanity denied to Arabs and Muslims (similarity 0.80)
- Labeling BLM protesters terrorists is a weapon to strip legitimacy from grievances (similarity 0.80)
- Muslims are uniquely cast as counterterrorism soldiers while white Americans never are (similarity 0.80)
- White supremacist violence is analyzed without racial profiling theories. (similarity 0.80)
- The Muslim-terrorism conflation distanced white wars and white terror from scrutiny (similarity 0.80)
- Media individualism grants white terrorists dignity denied their victims. (similarity 0.79)
- Huntington’s clash-of-civilizations thesis came to frame the entire War on Terror. (similarity 0.79)
- The War on Terror has no counterpart campaign against transnational white supremacy (similarity 0.79)
- The War on Terror fused the concepts of Muslim and terrorist. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Terrorism is a racial construct that excludes white freedom fighters
#corroborates(0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 160