RISE OF THE RACIAL PUNISHING STATE--It is hard to disagree with a growing consensus that what we are witnessing in the United States is the legacy of slavery and the criminalization of people of color reasserting itself in a society in which justice has been willingly and aggressively replaced by racial injustice. And it is precisely this militarization that informs my analysis about the growing dangers of authoritarianism in America. Racist killings, the loss of privacy, the rise of the surveillance state, the growing poverty and inequality, and the increasing corporatization of the commanding institutions of the United States point to something more than civil unrest, spying, racism, and other specific antidemocratic issues. What is truly at work here and unites all of these disparate issues is a growing threat of authoritarianism—or what might be otherwise called totalitarianism with elections.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 19:30:48 +0000
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