Antiracist horror is structurally complicit in racist spectacle

Evidence

What we have to face therefore is the fact of structural complicity between the spectacle of racist violence and the standpoint of official antiracist horror. I am not talking here of a certain “mirroring” between the rhetorical styles of racist/fascist/far right organizations and some antiracist/antifascist/far left groups, although this certainly exists. I mean that we have to begin our analysis, and our activism, from a recognition that in racism’s Other scene there are no hard and fast lines to be drawn between “two legs bad” and “four legs good.” — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1413

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• DEEPTHINKING: A genuinely dense, paradigm-shifting claim: the official antiracist reaction is not merely neutral but structurally complicit with the racist spectacle it condemns — resists any one-sentence summary and stays with you.
• SEED: Article angle: ‘the complicity of the horrified witness’ — how moral outrage at violence can itself become a position of consumption, whether watching brutal videos of police killings or viral war footage.

Related

• Official antiracist response is structurally complicit with the racist violence it condemns (similarity 0.93)
• Surveillance footage revealed racial violence as performed private-fantasy theatre (similarity 0.78)