Randomized state violence functions as a filter exposing hidden cultural difference

Evidence

The teleology of creating controlled chaos in enclosed environments is to force those present to resort to “natural instinct,” to flush out those trying for what is considered terrorizing purposes to blend in by making manifest their cultural habits, their implicit difference, to uncover their hidden agenda. Crowd control becomes a matter of checking out reactions to the randomization of reaction in the face of dramatically unpredictable possibilities. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 675

Categorization

• DEFINE: This defines ‘controlling chaos’ as a specific technique — engineered randomness whose purpose is to provoke natural responses that reveal people’s cultural habits and thus their ethnic identity.
• XREF: Connects to modern algorithmic surveillance profiling and the logic of predictive policing that reads behavioral anomalies as signals of intent.