"White terrorism is a term used to describe American domestic terrorist activities by white people, often in the context of the idea that undue media attention is placed on Islamic terrorism and not domestic terrorism, often by white Americans and is thus xenophobic against Muslims. The term was notably applied to 2015 Charleston church shooting. and Robert Lewis Dear, and the Oregon occupiers. "White terror" may also refer to the name of a BBC News programme about Kenyan Mau Mau veterans' groups are cataloguing a potentially damaging dossier on alleged human rights abuses in the 1950s Reasoning White shooters are often labelled in the news with context such as "mentally ill", that Islamic terrorists and black shooters don't receive. Hillary Clinton has used this term as well.
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