Civility veils socially sanctioned violence rather than ending it.

Evidence

Civility as historical process accordingly is not the purging – ending – of violence but its veiling (the iron hand in the velvet glove), the positioning of socially sanctioned violence out of sight – behind walls (e.g., execution, torture, harassment, sweat shops) or “over there” (colonization, foreign wars, desperately cheap factories, in occupied territories), placing curtains between public and private violence, between publics and violence in their name. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 250

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Civility is a consensus bargain that brands dissent as unworthy rowdiness. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 246; Civility veils rather than ends sanctioned state violence — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 250; The civilizing process makes violence invisible rather than eliminating it — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 285 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Civility veils rather than ends sanctioned state violence #corroborates (1.00) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 250
• The civilizing process makes violence invisible rather than eliminating it #corroborates (0.95) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 285
• Civility masks the egoism and violence of those who claim refined manners #corroborates (0.90)
• Violence with impunity is practiced in the name of civility #corroborates (0.85)
• Modern societies are constitutively founded on violence, not purged of it #corroborates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 236
• Secular law regulates violence rather than eliminating it #corroborates (0.75)