Institutionalized racial violence diffuses individual responsibility for perpetration

Evidence

In becoming systemic and institutionalized, racial violence effectively renders its perpetrators individually irresponsible, in both senses of the term. If racial violence is normalized as a given of daily life, individual responsibility is abrogated either to invisible social forces (ancient histories of antagonism, poverty of culture, etc.) or to errant individuals. The perpetration of racial violence in the state’s name is clouded over, mediated, rationalized away by those reserving (relative) humanity or progress to themselves while cast(e)ing off or out as inhuman or less human the objects of the violation and as exceptional the particular perpetrators. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1727

In becoming systemic and institutionalized, racial violence effectively renders its perpetrators individually irresponsible, in both senses of the term. If racial violence is normalized as a given of daily life, individual responsibility is abrogated either to invisible social forces (ancient histories of antagonism, poverty of culture, etc.) or to errant individuals. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1727

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharply distinguishes systemic from individual-actor framings of racial violence — a distinction the vault’s CRT claims invoke and this passage grounds.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1727
• XREF: connects to: White supremacy survives individual whites’ deaths because it is institutional — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 640