Human rights NGOs strengthened, not merely concealed, the link between markets and political violence.

Evidence

The problem, I argue, was not that the human rights NGOs allowed the neoliberals to obscure the relation between their economic shock and the political violence necessary to impose it, as is often suggested. Rather, in conceptualising the problem as politics and the solution as law, the human rights NGOs bolstered the neoliberal dichotomy between violent politics and peaceful markets, secured by constitutional restrictions. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 65

Categorization

• XREF: Directly reverses a common claim in the critical-human-rights literature the reader is likely familiar with; bears on the ethics-of-markets debate. — connects to: Human rights NGOs reinforced the neoliberal split between violent politics and peaceful markets; Neoliberal human rights legitimize state violence to protect global markets.; Human rights could be institutionalized to shield market inequalities from politics. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 368 (+5 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: Rewires the standard critical account: NGOs were not unwitting alibis but active contributors to the politics/law and violence/market framing — a paradigm-shifting reversal for rights critiques.

Broader Connections

• Human rights NGOs reinforced the neoliberal split between violent politics and peaceful markets #expands (0.95)
• Neoliberal human rights legitimize state violence to protect global markets. #expands (0.90)
• Human rights NGOs absorbed the neoliberal civil-society-versus-coercive-state dichotomy #expands (0.90) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 60
• Human rights could be institutionalized to shield market inequalities from politics. #qualifies (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 368
• Neoliberals judged human-rights claims by their conduciveness to markets #expands (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 27
• Neoliberals reframed human rights as instruments of market submission #expands (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 120
• Human-rights rhetoric actively helped legitimize deepening global inequality. #expands (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 381
• Neoliberal reform shrank public-sector jobs and redirected educated Dalits into NGOs #expands (0.75) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 562