How privilege-blindness stops us understanding the roots of terrorism | Priyamvada Gopal

Posted by on Aug 14, 2012

From Cameron’s ‘Indian dance’ remark to the discussion of Breivik’s motives, the invisibility of whiteness distorts debate An independent inquiry has established that Anders Behring Breivik, the clean-cut white supremacist who methodically murdered 77 people in Norway, moved around unchallenged for three hours after detonating a car bomb, despite police receiving eyewitness accounts of an armed man in protective gear. Were the police looking for a different kind of killer? Or, despite the existence of a long-established white power underground in Norway, was it assumed that this was not a terrorist attack which would have triggered a protocol of nationwide alerts and roadblocks?

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