Benign-sounding CVE language hides school-based surveillance and deputization of children
Evidence
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
Categorization
- DEFINE: Cracks the code-speak of CVE grant language, showing how euphemisms translate into actual policing mechanisms in schools.
- XREF: Instantiates Selod’s co-constructive surveillance concept and Rana’s apparatus framework at the school level. — connects to: Administrative alarm hinged on predicting contagious parental sentiment; Obama’s mosque speech contradicted its own stated aims through CVE promotion. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 325; CVE engagement localized the Muslim-terrorism presumption on police and communities — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 328 (+7 more)
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 403
Broader Connections
- DHS actively recruited Muslim community groups into CVE with multimillion-dollar grants
#expands(0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 403 - CVE policing rewards compliant Muslims and suspects critical ones
#expands(0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 396 - Citizenship offers Muslims little protection against CVE policing
#expands(0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 412 - Grassroots backlash forced one group’s grant decline but most CVE funding persisted
#expands(0.55) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 408