Racialized threat narratives justify suspending due process for designated bodies

Evidence

Race soothes any worries we have about the display of raw power. It invests the proceedings with a kind of coherency that belies the arbitrary nature of what is unfolding. There are monster terrorists, we believe, and the things we must do in order to contain them, things we would not ordinarily accept, become justified. It is through the powerful evocations of jihad and pitiless, misogynist men in beards that we come to accept that we do not need due process, that proof does not matter. We become inured to lawlessness, as long as it remains in the camps, as long, that is, that it is applied only to certain bodies who live outside of reason. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 140

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Echoes the logic of moral panic over designated groups that underlies the complaints/immodesty work — acceptably a cousin but not a strict fit.