Military recruitment disproportionately targets the poor as disposable
Evidence
The terror within is always real. While the terror without is often manufactured, to marshal support for wars that deceive the masses at home and advance the interests of elites abroad. The marching orders of empire, history clearly reveals, never benefit the children thrown into its fires. “The poorest among us are the most disposable” is as quintessential an American slogan as any, and the indigent margins of Detroit and its outer enclaves represent that. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 205
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader synthesis of Islamophobia as globalized; echoes the economic-disposability theme in A Very Minor Prophet and Parable of the Sower.
- SEED: Angle: how recruitment targets and war casualties disproportionately fall on the indigent in both the US and the Middle East — the twin victims of one war.
Related
- Imperial wars advance elite interests while sacrificing poor citizen-soldiers (similarity 0.82)
- ISIS recruits by exploiting economic misery akin to military enlistment practices (similarity 0.81)
- Economic precarity and pandemic hardship pushed working-class Muslims toward military enlistment (similarity 0.79)
- Targeted military recruitment failed among Brooklyn Arab-Americans who opposed the Iraq war. (similarity 0.79)