The rule of law is selectively enforced on racial groups framed as threats

Evidence

Central to the configuration of black criminality is the concept of a law-and-order society (Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies 1982). This is to say that in moments of crisis, upholding the rule of law becomes the means through which the practices of the state apparatus are legitimized through the arm of the police. Ideas about race are mobilized in moral panics as a result of a directly or indirectly perceived threat. The rule of law then becomes a selective enforcement on particular racial groups that are assigned this level of threat. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 914

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Cohen’s moral panic theory and the Stuart Hall/CCCS law-and-order work on black criminality. — connects to: Powerful groups dominate space through legal and illegal means — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1396; The Rule of law opposes both sovereign despotism and the police state — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 916; Systematic minority discrimination inevitably undermines the impartiality of the rule of law — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 1382 (+3 more)