Mass surveillance based on racial stereotypes weakens democracy without preventing terrorism.

Evidence

This act of denying Muslims their American identity is a racializing act and is accomplished through hypersurveillance. The belief that to be American is to be white is resurfacing as Muslims are made to feel they are incapable of being loyal to America because their bodies are equated with terror and their values are somehow antithetical to Western or American ones. In many ways, it feels as if America is revisiting its past: the early twentieth century, when South Asian men desperately fought for naturalization were denied it because their religious identity situated them as incapable of sharing Western values. The act of racialized surveillance is also an act that strips one of citizenship. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 658 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Modern surveillance is structured by anti-Blackness — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 2569; The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 29; Surveillance of whole populations weakens democracy while failing to prevent terror (+6 more)

Related

• Hypersurveillance itself is the mechanism that racializes Muslim Americans (similarity 0.91)
• Racialized surveillance itself strips Muslims of substantive citizenship (similarity 0.90)
• Citizenship itself is racialized, protecting some citizens while criminalizing Muslim Americans. (similarity 0.89)
• Surveillance of whole populations weakens democracy while failing to prevent terror (similarity 0.88)
• The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance (similarity 0.86)
• Terrorism declined while mass shootings rose, yet only Muslims faced surveillance (similarity 0.86)
• Racialized group surveillance weakens democracy and expands state power (similarity 0.85)
• Surveillance targets Muslims while ignoring white supremacist militias (similarity 0.85)
• Even Muslim civil rights organizations are surveilled and discredited by the state (similarity 0.85)
• Surveillance racializes Muslims by casting them as threats rather than protected citizens. (similarity 0.85)
• Support for a targeted minority doubles as surveillance and control of that minority (similarity 0.85)
• Surveillance makes citizens feel citizenship confers no protection (similarity 0.84)
• The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. (similarity 0.84)
• Racialized surveillance denies Muslim Americans the individuality citizenship requires. (similarity 0.84)
• Surveillance justified by religious identity constitutes racialization of Muslims (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Surveillance of whole populations weakens democracy while failing to prevent terror #corroborates (0.95)
• Racialized surveillance itself strips Muslims of substantive citizenship #expands (0.75) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 658
• Surveillance justified by religious identity constitutes racialization of Muslims #expands (0.70)
• Blanket accusations of Muslims justify state surveillance by identity #expands (0.65)