French colorblind legal doctrine masks state-driven racial inequities that feed ISIS recruitment.
Evidence
These banlieues are where the French lights and glossy lie of colorblindness come to die. Enshrined by a 1972 law prohibiting the collection of racial and ethnic data, French colorblindness facilitates the racial and ethnic inequities in education, housing, and employment that ravage the predominantly Arab, African, and Muslim residents of the banlieues. These conditions simultaneously feed anger toward the state and produce a fertile recruitment ground for ISIS. A cycle of marginalization rooted in state policy. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 773
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader project on states learning Islamophobic techniques; the 1972 data-collection ban mirrors American debates on race-blind policy.
- CANDY: The neat irony that a law meant to abolish race on the books abets racial inequity on the streets is a tweetable contradiction of colorblindness.
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- State neglect and overpolicing of banlieues made them ISIS recruiting grounds (similarity 0.79)