The man believed to have been behind a  that killed two people and injured five in Austin, Texas, died on March 21 after blowing himself up in his vehicle as law enforcement closed in.
The suspect has been . This has  a familiar conversation on who is and is not labelled a “terrorist†by the mainstream media and US politicians.
The explosions began on March 2, when a package bomb killed 39-year-old Anthony Stephan House on his front porch in Austin. Over the next two weeks,  were detonated — all of which were constructed by the same individual, law enforcement officials said on March 21.
Before the bombing suspect’s death, the White House released a statement “there is no apparent nexus to terrorism at this timeâ€.
Now that the suspect has been identified as a white male, many commentators predicted that lawmakers, the media and law enforcement would likely follow the White House line that the suspect is not a terrorist. They say this line would be radically different from the beginning .
In a  on March 21, Christian Christensen, a journalism professor at Stockholm University, observed: “U.S. media and politicians have been very, very quick to apply the terrorism label when suspects are not white, because such an application carries no social or professional blow-back if they are wrong.â€
“When ‘other’ people who kill innocent civilians with bombs and blow themselves up instead of being captured by the police, media, politicians and Twitter have no problem immediately talking ‘radicalization’ & ‘terror’.
“When it's this guy? ‘Wait for the facts’.â€
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