Racial threat operates through rationalized systems that disperse responsibility across social arrangements

Evidence

It is with a cartographic comprehension of racially emergent and rationalized threats that this book will be concerned, and with their contemporary social arrangements of evasion and evaporation of responsibility but also of the possible conditions and practices of their undoing. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 153

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Threat-based racial governance relies on distance and incapacitation, not engagement with its targets — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 152; Rationalized social organization structurally enables cruelty by mediating responsibility — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 441; White supremacy is a society-wide valuing system, not merely extremist violence. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 55

Broader Connections

• Rationalized social organization structurally enables cruelty by mediating responsibility #expands (0.90) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 441