I'm laughably unqualified for anything resembling a Fellowship at a graduate writing program - which seems to be the author's top credential - but in many ways, the article reads like something out of a surreal-fringe literary magazine. Phrases such as "the facade of Western moral superiority has crumbled" make me wonder whether this guy has even heard of the Crusades, the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Northern Ireland, or Saladin. Let alone Muhammad (PBUH).

Does anyone have a better sense of the context here?

Dehumanizing people 101 : it starts with movies. The saying goes 'all Arabs are Muslims' which is false... The all Arabs, Muslims are inherently violent... From there you have building blocks, like with Afro Americans, on which people think 'they' don't feel the same thing as 'us', they have a much higher tolerance to pain, they can be killed because, well it's a shame...

Dehumanizing a wvole people it's real and we're living it... :(

> I turned in time to see that a bulky and bald White American man had knocked her and several other protesters over. [..] More than anything else, it was the look in his eyes that I will never forget. Not the hatred, not the violence — that, I could stomach — but the lack of hesitation, the assuredness that he would never be labeled a “terrorist” or “barbaric.” Only we would ever face those charges.

How White Women Use Themselves as Instruments of Terror - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/opinion/racism-white-wome...

Hate symbol: It's okay to be white - https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/its-okay-be-white

Ohio universities involve FBI in investigation of ‘It’s okay to be white’ and white nationalist group’s postings on campus - https://www.thefire.org/news/ohio-universities-involve-fbi-i...

There’s nothing more frightening in America today than an angry White man - https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/20/us/angry-white-men-trials...

How to Understand White Male Terrorism - https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-to-understand-...

‘We Are Being Eaten From Within.’ Why America Is Losing the Battle Against White Nationalist Terrorism - https://time.com/5647304/white-nationalist-terrorism-united-...

Top law enforcement officials say the biggest domestic terror threat comes from white supremacists. - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/us/politics/domestic-terr...

Tackle white supremacy as terrorism, experts say - https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/14/us/white-supremacy-terror...

White Terrorism Is as Old as America - https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/19/magazine/white-terrorism-...