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White terrorists are different

The making of an American terrorist: Robert Dear shot up a Planned Parenthood clinic and killed three people — did the right-wing media help turn a disturbed loner into a mass murderer? We don’t talk about “radicalization” when an attacker isn’t Muslim — we should. Dylann Roof was not “self-radicalized” — he was part of a racist community. Inside the trial of Dylann Roof: Jelani Cobb on the complicated moral calculations that followed a horrific crime. Republican congressman says white terrorists are different. Signal received: White nationalists ecstatic over Trump’s proposed policy change on terrorism — neo-Nazis, Klansmen and other hate groups always suspected Trump was their guy, and now they're sure of it.