Racialized control techniques remain available because public resistance is weak

Evidence

The prophylactic apparatuses make readily available a toolbox of technologies racially shaped and licensed for the management of social heterogeneities, and their perceived challenges and threats. The relative lack of robust public resistances – even the intense resistance to resistance, to criticism – suggests that the possibility of pressing repressive social technologies into service is disturbingly closer at hand than is comfortable to contemplate. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 485

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Mass behavior modification was denounced decades ago but now passes with little resistance — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 70