Communitarian moral rhetoric masks a project of disciplining individuals

Evidence

Hold on a minute. The general orientation of this book and the general trend it exemplified is precisely about individualism. It’s about creating very definite kinds of individual, who possess quite specific types of virtue and docility. The moral gravity engendered here is above all a matter of finding new ways to discipline and punish, or to use Edwin Meese III’s telling phrase, it’s about “punishing creatively” (Meese, 1999:95). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2975 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The collective’s brutality masks manipulation rather than true human quality; Moralistic bourgeois rhetoric can be backed by hidden violence and therefore never trusted — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 459; Legitimation by ‘the people’ requires destroying traditional minority knowledges — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 252 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Communitarian moral campaigns conceal renewed projects of discipline and punishment #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2975