Anti-communist control mechanisms are recycled to target each successive racialized or dissident group

Evidence

This case illustrates how the national security state adapts provisions originally designed to handle one threat to deal with new and evolving threats. The McCarran–Walter Act, COINTELPRO, and other such means of controlling Communists proved suitable for targeting racialized others as well. Moreover, mechanisms developed after 9/11 were then deployed against leaders of the Occupy Wall Street movement as well as environmental rights activists including Native Americans in Montana protesting the Keystone Pipeline. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 557

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Anti-communist legal machinery was adapted wholesale to target Muslims; The state adapts anti-communist tools to target racialized groups; Authoritarian aggression channels into conventional targets like minorities. (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Anti-communist legal machinery transfers intact onto racialized Muslim and later leftist targets. #corroborates (0.95) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 557
• The state adapts anti-communist tools to target racialized groups #corroborates (0.92)
• Allied authorities created expellee organizations as anti-communist tools #exemplifies (0.85) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 82
• Distinct racist systems fuse by cross-codifying their targets. #expands (0.78) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 568
• Authoritarian aggression channels into conventional targets like minorities. #corroborates (0.72)
• Racisms combine across racialized groups rather than dividing cleanly by target #corroborates (0.72)