Mass surveillance of whites provoked outrage that surveillance of Muslims did not
Evidence
These stories about the targeting of Muslims and Arab Americans did not get the same attention as the initial Snowden revelations. This flows from a perception that while it is correct to object to the US government collecting private data on “ordinary” (read white) people, the racialized Muslim is a legitimate target of surveillance. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 558
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- SEED: An essay angle: contrasting public reaction to Snowden vs. the silencing of surveillance on racialized minorities, and what it reveals about whose privacy counts as a right.
Related
- Media coverage of mass surveillance depended on who was surveilled (similarity 0.85)
- Mass state surveillance laws target white citizens and Muslims with unequal public scrutiny (similarity 0.84)
- Snowden leaks proved surveillance targets religious identity regardless of class or government service (similarity 0.84)
- NSA surveillance targets people solely because of Muslim heritage (similarity 0.82)
- Each terrorist attack triggers renewed citizen anger and state surveillance against Muslims. (similarity 0.81)
- Terrorism declined while mass shootings rose, yet only Muslims faced surveillance (similarity 0.79)