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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Huh? We always hear about the suspects' race and religion in these things. Every single time. As soon as they know who it is they put it out there.
Media outlets are climbing over each other to learn that kind of information and get it out. That's their job. Whoever gets it first "wins".
There's no dark conspiracy to blame white people.
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Its not that the truth doesn't come out in all cases, but with most Islam "motivated" attacks, while they will report on who and why, they will often be slower to annouce, or caveat that they don't know motivations for much longer. In this case basically as soon as they saw he was white they called it and said it was motivated by Islamaphobia.
I wouldn't say its a conspiracy, moreso just cultural stigmatisation and a hesitation to automatically link Arabs/Persians with extremism (don't blame them), as well as the fact there aren't often stories of the "other side" being guilty as well. Helps balance their narrative.