Race thinking divides humanity into violent and nonviolent groups requiring separate legal regimes

Evidence

The five detainees are more than simply victims of racial profiling. Their Arab origins, and the life history that mostly Arab Muslim men have had, operate to mark them as individuals likely to commit terrorist acts, people whose propensity for violence is indicated by their origins. When race thinking, the belief in the division of humanity into those prone to violence and those who are not according to descent, is accompanied by the idea that there must be two different, hierarchical legal regimes for each, and when we begin to grow accustomed to places without law and to people to whom the rule of law does not apply, we enter the terrifying world of the colonies and the concentration camp. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 76

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘race thinking’ as a descent-based division of humanity into the violent and nonviolent, which then licenses unequal legal regimes.
• XREF: Connects to Agamben’s state of exception and the colony as a lawless space, relevant to Schmittian emergency law.