Breivik counted on the sort of lazy racial profiling that automatically attributes actions like this to Middle Easterners. He apparently got onto the island by presenting himself at the boat dock in a police uniform and saying, "because of the bombing, I need to go check the camp's security." They looked at him -- blond hair, blue eyes, obviously Norwegian by birth -- and didn't check his story.
The assumption that OF COURSE it was a brown-skinned person who did this didn't just lead to a lot of stupid reporting. It led to 85 murdered teenagers.
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Breivik counted on the sort of lazy racial profiling that automatically attributes actions like this to Middle Easterners. He apparently got onto the island by presenting himself at the boat dock in a police uniform and saying, "because of the bombing, I need to go check the camp's security." They looked at him -- blond hair, blue eyes, obviously Norwegian by birth -- and didn't check his story.
The assumption that OF COURSE it was a brown-skinned person who did this didn't just lead to a lot of stupid reporting. It led to 85 murdered teenagers.