Liberal states purge unwanted members through media vilification and citizenship threats

Evidence

In this context, the folk devil must then undergo a ritual casting out from society. In part, this ritual is conducted through Cody’s media campaign of vilification. It is augmented by bandwagon-jumping politicians, keen to look tough—such as Flanagan’s fictional leader of the Opposition, who takes to the airwaves to brandish the threat of enforced statelessness: “Terrorists are not Australians.… Either you are with Australia or you are no longer Australian and have lost your right to the rights of other citizens” (158–59). By the power of nightmares, the liberal authoritarian state is to purge itself of its unwanted members. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 374

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: State media can both silence immigrants and unwittingly amplify their voices — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 145; Voter suppression targets the political power of liberal and nonwhite majorities. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 660; Politicians suppress minority turnout and invent threats to mask authoritarianism — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 1373 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: State media can both silence immigrants and unwittingly amplify their voices — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 145; Voter suppression targets the political power of liberal and nonwhite majorities. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 660; Politicians suppress minority turnout and invent threats to mask authoritarianism — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 1373 (+3 more)