Media denial and anonymity precede and enable physical violence against Muslims

Evidence

Alive to me, but killed by the denial and dehumanization of media coverage while they still walked the earth. Only to be killed again, in that barren chamber of silence and anonymity, by a Chinese prison guard or an American drone strike, a strike that fell from a sky that showered fatal rain and foreign reign. Killed, for the billionth time, on the beaches of Algiers, in the alleys of Srinagar, or in the back ways of Beirut, a city where my dead father once held my hand as I tried to look away. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1214

Categorization

• XREF: The death-by-narrative-erasure logic echoes the reader’s ‘Grafting & Growth’ themes of perception shaping reality, and pairs with media-dehumanization discussions in prior chapters and in the Iftikhar global reading. — connects to: Harassment is a structural condition rather than an aberration of social media — Tarleton Gillespie, Custodians of the Internet: Platforms,…, 183; Mediated violence causes collateral harms to people who never view it