Torture justification rests on stereotyped notions of what a terrorist looks like

Evidence

But how to know whether the person under interrogation has such information in the first place? So contemplation of torture can only be pursued on suspicion. And that suspicion is predicated if not altogether fabricated on presumption of a stereotypical preconception, invariably indexed to or insinuated about a group gone ghostly, of what a terrorist must look or act like. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1870

Categorization

• QUESTION: The ‘group gone ghostly’ formulation — who exactly falls in this category today and how does the ghostly erasure modulate across contexts worth chasing.