Official discourse systematically downplays Prevent’s harms as isolated errors.

Evidence

One of the most striking elements of public discourse concerning Prevent is how little official recognition there is of the harm it inflicts on British Muslim minorities in schools, universities and other societal settings. On the few occasions such harm is acknowledged, it is often downplayed as the result of a misunderstanding, an aberration or a one-off experience due to poor training. There remains an institutional reluctance to scrutinize the full impact of Prevent. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 438

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the decolonial/critical-Muslim-studies stance’s focus on epistemic erasure of Muslim testimony; parallels the addendum piece on how moral panics get rationalized away. — connects to: UK Prevent duty chills campus free speech and Muslim activism. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 411; Mythic discourse systematically conceals its own origins and institutional basis; Bureaucratic language becomes structurally unfit for moral evaluation of human objects. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 299

Related

• UK Prevent duty chills campus free speech and Muslim activism. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Mythic discourse systematically conceals its own origins and institutional basis #corroborates (0.78)
• Bureaucratic language becomes structurally unfit for moral evaluation of human objects. #corroborates (0.74) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 299