“It's very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blond hair being killed every day,” shared a guest on BBC News—an explicit overture that did not elicit alarm but agreement from the interviewing anchor, who followed, “I understand and respect the emotion.” The guest, a former Ukrainian deputy general, made plain what sat quietly at the center of everyone's minds. White and especially nonwhite, intimately and painfully aware that white life and white struggle are extended an instant humanity that is foreclosed to Arabs and Muslims immersed in the very same struggles.

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