More baseless race-baiting bitching in the Guardian

Why Mark Anthony Conditt – a white Christian – isn't called a terrorist

Daniel José Camacho says it's white privilege and white racism.

Racial and religious privilege intersect in how the Austin serial bomber is being perceived

If a Muslim man planted bombs in predominately white neighborhoods before blowing himself up, you could bet that the White House and various media outlets would label him a terrorist and draw some connection between his religion and his violent acts. 

But the case of the Austin bomber reveals an enduring double standard: white Christian terrorists continue to get a free pass.

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Racial and religious privilege intersect in how Conditt is being perceived. 

Because he is white, his acts are reduced to a personal problem even though white American men have consistently posed a bigger domestic terrorist threat than Muslim foreigners who get treated as systemic threat. 

Since Conditt is a Christian, his faith is considered coincidental in spite of the fact that conservative survivalist circles explicitly pursue a racialized, apocalyptic social project.

But not every crime of violence, nor even every hate crime, is an act of terrorism.

And while it's pretty clear Conditt's bombings were hate crimes as he targeted only blacks, they do not appear to have been intended to alter anyone's behavior, political or otherwise, through terror.

Camacho knows that perfectly well, but objects to this reality because, well, it's just so racist.

Many refuse to label Conditt a terrorist over technicalities involving whether his acts were clearly “politically motivated.” 

But that’s the luxury of being white. 

To be white is to be considered culturally and politically neutral even when you’re part of a long legacy of white extremists.

Another reality he seems to know is that the people who attack abortion clinics, people seeking abortions, or people supporting the legality of abortions are recognized to do so precisely to change behavior through terror.

And they are almost exclusively white Christians.

They not only are terrorists but are regularly called that in the media, white Christians though they be.

And the same is true of the Klan.

Not good enough for Camacho.

There is no pleasing him.