The stability of the surrounding world made the excluded appear as unfortunate exceptions

Evidence

Although government, corporations, and the dominant media try to represent racism as an unfortunate aberration of the past that has been relegated to the graveyard of U.S. history, it continues to profoundly influence contemporary structures, attitudes, and behaviors. Nevertheless, anyone who would dare to call for the reintroduction of slavery, the organization of lynch mobs, or the reestablishment of legal segregation would be summarily dismissed. But it should be remembered that the ancestors of many of today’s most ardent liberals could not have imagined life without slavery, life without lynching, orlife without segregation. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 57 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: In a fully organized world, loss of status equals expulsion from humanity; Institutions once deemed inevitable became unthinkable through political struggle — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 57

Related

• Institutions once deemed inevitable became unthinkable through political struggle (similarity 0.87)
• Slavery, lynching, and segregation each institutionalized a distinct form of racism (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• In a fully organized world, loss of status equals expulsion from humanity #expands (0.85)
• Institutions once deemed inevitable became unthinkable through political struggle #complicates (0.75) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 57