It really is so; a privilege of being white is individualism.  Read a fascinating article recently re the narrative constructions of white criminality. This latest shooter has been cast as a lone wolf-can be read as not representative of his ethnic group. When it’s a member of another group the entire group is cast as just how ‘they’ are; not unlike the narrative around drug addiction, other ethnic groups get criminalised the privileged class gets medicalised (fentanyl).  And here commenters suggesting shooter must be mentally ill, have some sort of brain damage- anything else is inconceivable.  We’ve even posed the question of whether he is a ‘terrorist’, whether he's been radicalised unbeknownst to us.  In fact rumours started circulating immediately on conservative websites-and repeated in G&M comments section- that his name was Samir al-Hajeed, missing the fact this is a variation on sam hyde, a name that has been associated with mass shooting hoaxes. Fascinating indeed.