Applying a female soldier as first charged displaces abuse onto gendered individual failure.

Evidence

Limbaugh and his listeners, for whom an Iraqi death in detention apparently is not death, rape is not terror, sodomy with a broomstick is not abuse! And feminization of the homeland is something to be rued, while the feminized humiliation of the enemy for the sake of the fatherland is cause for commendation and celebration. That a woman was the first US soldier to be charged for these prison abuses further deinstitutionalizes the wrongdoing, symbolically displacing it to the person of a woman inherently lacking military discipline. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 268 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Charging the sole woman soldier for Abu Ghraib abuses symbolically displaced institutional guilt. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 268; Women who are punished are seen as more aberrant and threatening than men — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 174; People derogate their victims to justify having harmed them. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3962 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Charging the sole woman soldier for Abu Ghraib abuses symbolically displaced institutional guilt. #corroborates (0.97) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 268