Repeated racist discursive strategies harden into commonsense used to justify governing suspect groups

Evidence

These discursive strategies, which overlap and interact with each other, are critical to the production of racist tropes that then circulate in society and become assumptions and commonsense. 252 Through their repeated use, they become common knowledge and remarkably difficult to dislodge. They are used to justify greater governance of suspect populations. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 358

Categorization

• QUESTION: This sketches the mechanism by which discourse becomes commonsense — worth checking how Choudhury grounds this against the Fields’ racecraft account.
• XREF: connects to: Racist tropes enter mainstream commonsense making race-based discrimination seem natural.; Racist knowledge enters mainstream as commonsense once crafted by recurring strategies; Commonsense racist assumptions make legal complicity in subordination seem logical — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 368 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Racist knowledge enters mainstream as commonsense once crafted by recurring strategies #corroborates (0.96)
• Commonsense racist assumptions make legal complicity in subordination seem logical #exemplifies (0.90) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 368
• Racist discourse adapts to context so similar prejudices get varying formulations #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1071
• Racism is socially learned and reproduced through discourse rather than innate #expands (0.82)
• Race-neutral rhetoric coexists with licensed racial profiling for security and policing #exemplifies (0.79)