Privatized media personalities circulate racist ideas states can no longer voice directly.

Evidence

This public “privatization” of symbolic violence, displacing it from formal state apparatus to “private” media personality, continues to enable the public circulation of ideas through privatized channels no longer explicitly possible by state representatives. As Slavoj yizek remarks, Abu Ghraib (and, it could be added, the likes of the Limbaugh legitimation) is deeply revealing of rather than at odds with currently prevailing “American values.” — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 269

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: outsourcing racist speech to private figures (talk radio, cable hosts) as a workaround for state speech norms — the privatization of symbolic violence.
• XREF: Extends the chapter’s running theme of privatization into the symbolic/ideological realm; resonates with how corporations outsource dirty work to contractors.