Ethnically absolutist communitarianism produces its own violence

Evidence

Was Hicks’s fear and hatred of Islam irrational, or was it fueled by the stereotypes of the faith and its followers he regularly heard on the radio and watched on television, and, therefore, rational? Furthermore, was he a deviant actor whose horrific acts were the result of his own motives alone? Or was Hicks collaborating in the broader national project of policing, prosecuting, and punishing Muslims—the formal mission of the war on terror, that ambiguous and unconventional war authorized by counterterror laws like the USA PATRIOT Act, Countering Violent Extremism, and, two years after the triple murder, the Muslim ban enacted by President Trump? — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 101 (#expands, via linked claim)

Oppression, he notices, doesn’t make people saintly, it makes them potential killers; all victims are dangerous. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 737 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Organized violence creates member security that validates the movement’s fictitious world; Hate violence can be state-encouraged rather than merely irrational individual deviance — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 101; OAS violence deliberately destroyed the communities it claimed to defend (+7 more)

Related

• Hate violence can be state-encouraged rather than merely irrational individual deviance (similarity 0.83)
• State-sponsored violence channels a resentful hatred of living bodies (similarity 0.81)
• Hate must be cultivated and performed, not merely felt (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• OAS violence deliberately destroyed the communities it claimed to defend #exemplifies (0.82)
• Hate violence can be state-encouraged rather than merely irrational individual deviance #expands (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 101
• Oppression does not confer virtue but breeds potential violence in victims #complicates (0.75) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 737