Civil-liberties-versus-security framing normalizes sacrificing minority rights.

Evidence

In the decade after 9/11, the approach to law and order in the United States changed drastically with surveillance being a necessary and supported tactic in a society hyperconcerned with preventing another terrorist attack. Surveillance is the observation and monitoring of behaviors and actions that are deemed suspicious. The domestic and international War on Terror legitimizes the political and economic need for increased surveillance, resulting in the corporatization and federalization of surveillance. In other words, surveillance has become big business in the United States, where companies profit from surveillance technologies and tools, such as maintaining databases of information on the general public and then selling them to the government for purposes of security. A surveillance society can only survive as long as there is a need to monitor and observe bodies that threaten security. The War on Terror created conditions where Muslim bodies are racialized, justifying the need for their surveillance. But surveillance does not impact Muslim men and women in the same way; rather, surveillance is gendered, highlighting how racialization is also gendered. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 29 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Rights framing shifts the burden of justification from prohibition advocates to parents — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 7829; Prisons create the illusion that free people’s rights and liberties are secured by imprisonment. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 24; Liberal gender equality can reduce to demanding equal right to be shot by guards. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 201 (+15 more)

Related

• The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance (similarity 0.82)
• The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. (similarity 0.81)
• Socioeconomic status does not protect Muslims from racialization during war (similarity 0.81)
• Support for a targeted minority doubles as surveillance and control of that minority (similarity 0.81)
• Terrorism declined while mass shootings rose, yet only Muslims faced surveillance (similarity 0.80)
• US War on Terror frames enable mass internment and ethnic cleansing abroad. (similarity 0.80)
• The War on Terror legitimizes expanded police repression at home (similarity 0.80)
• Mass surveillance based on racial stereotypes weakens democracy without preventing terrorism. (similarity 0.79)
• Covert framing of Muslim surveillance as anti-terrorism suppressed public protest (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Covert framing of Muslim surveillance as anti-terrorism suppressed public protest #exemplifies (0.80)
• The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance #exemplifies (0.80) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 29
• Racializing Muslims as threats sustains a surveillance state with gendered effects #expands (0.70)
• Civilizing policies normalized the presence of subjects in a nation of citizens #corroborates (0.60)
• Framing discrimination as individual hate obscures its structural and policy-based causes #corroborates (0.60) — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 34