Incivility is endemic to civil society, not a departure from it.

Evidence

Keane concludes that “all known forms of civil society are plagued by endogenous sources of incivility,” that “incivility is a chronic feature of civil societies, one of their typical conditions, and, hence, normatively speaking, a perennial barrier to the actualization of a fully ‘civilized’ civil society” (the emphasis is his). This draws attention to the relational distinction between civility and civil society (a surprisingly rare contribution to the voluminous literature on civil society, actually). But, for all that, I would say, more pressingly, that these concerns throw in question the very idea of a “more civilized” civil society. Indeed, they call into question the notion of a separate, stand-apart, idealized private sphere of the civil over and against the state. The civil either is (to be) a defining condition of state formation, a brake on state power within the state, as a constitutive condition of its self-expressed formation and being, or the state as a matter of fact will be uncivil not over and against some outside order but as a denial, a negation, of what gets marked as civility as a matter of state self-definition – at least to greater or smaller degree. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 254

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Incivility is endogenous to civil society rather than its outside — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 254; Modern societies are constitutively founded on violence, not purged of it — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 236; Civil society exerts coercive educative pressure without formal legal sanctions — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 910 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Incivility is endogenous to civil society rather than its outside #corroborates (0.98) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 254
• Manners function as instruments of social control, not mere decorum. #corroborates (0.85) — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 63
• Violence with impunity is practiced in the name of civility #exemplifies (0.82)
• Civil society exerts coercive educative pressure without formal legal sanctions #expands (0.78) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 910
• Modern societies are constitutively founded on violence, not purged of it #corroborates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 236