(CAMPUSREFORM.ORG/?ID=7124) — Several college professors claim that the white protesters occupying a federal building in Oregon are beneficiaries of white privilege that keeps the media from calling them domestic terrorists.
Tweeting under the hashtag “ #OregonUnderAttack,” the professors argue that the government and media responses to the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge by white ranchers would be far less conciliatory if the protesters were dark-skinned.
“Armed militia stage protests in Oregon … Put Black, Muslim, or Latino in that blank line and #OregonUnderAttack is a national crisis,” tweeted Prof. Khaled Beydoun, a law professor at the Barry University School of Law.
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