The exceptionalism logic enabled torture, invasions, and mass deportations.

Evidence

It is not too much of a stretch to argue that this notion of an exceptional moment coupled with this process of racialization has enabled the U.S. government to implement the USA PATRIOT Act, invade Iraq, initiate a war in Afghanistan, hold and torture prisoners in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons without legal recourse, and initiate mass deportations of Arabs and Muslims from the United States. — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 392