Administering presumed guilt by area doubles down racialized vulnerability to death.

Evidence

Deep within the Times article, it was revealed that the Obama administration was able to make claims about low civilian casualty counts in drone strikes because it defined as a “combatant” (against whom drone warfare is sanctioned) any military age male who lived in an area being targeted by drone strikes “unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent.” Such a definition epitomizes racist dehumanization as it exposes tens of millions to vulnerability to premature death, an important dimension of racialization. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 508

Categorization

• XREF: Directly evidences the MOC’s causal thread on racialization as vulnerability to premature death — build into ‘The Enemy-Making Machine’ as a concrete operating definition. — connects to: The death penalty fails through innocent executions, arbitrariness, and racial discrimination — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2083; Racism operates as a disposition toward premature death of the subjugated. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 141; Race pairing predicts death sentences even after controlling for legal factors — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 72 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Racism operates as a disposition toward premature death of the subjugated. #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 141
• The death penalty fails through innocent executions, arbitrariness, and racial discrimination #expands (0.80) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2083
• Bombing and sanctions constitute racialized vulnerability to premature death #exemplifies (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 87
• Race pairing predicts death sentences even after controlling for legal factors #corroborates (0.75) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 72
• African-featured defendants get death penalties mainly when victims are White. #corroborates (0.75) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 861
• Racialization shortens minority life expectancy even when incident harm is rare. #corroborates (0.75) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 347
• Black drug and murder defendants receive harsher punishment than White ones #corroborates (0.72)