Administrative alarm hinged on predicting contagious parental sentiment

Evidence

Predicting the future is based on knowledge of the past. The archives of lives constitute the basis for claims that, by noting regularities and anticipating recurrences, it is possible both to predict the future and to change the course of it by taking preemptive action. Such claims are clearly founded upon very fragile epistemological bases, which in no way prevents them from being extremely dangerous but, on the contrary, ensures that they are. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 198 (#expands, via linked claim)

These ambiguous aims, which sound innocuous and even well intentioned, are code-speak for programming that would educate students about the threat of radicalization, develop a “see something, say something” culture in schools, and, ultimately, deputize school administrators and students to be watchdogs on the lookout for homegrown radicals—radicals, absurdly, that were as young as eleven years old and profiled because of their religious identity. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 403 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Surveillance can predict civilian behavior from recurring spatial and social patterns; Predictive threat-detection rests on epistemologically fragile assumptions — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 198; Benign-sounding CVE language hides school-based surveillance and deputization of children — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 403 (+1 more)

Related

• Predictive threat-detection rests on epistemologically fragile assumptions (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Predictive threat-detection rests on epistemologically fragile assumptions #expands (0.75) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 198
• Benign-sounding CVE language hides school-based surveillance and deputization of children #expands (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 403
• Learned family authority patterns shape how people respond to all authority #complicates (0.60)