War on Terror rhetoric revived vocabulary from America’s earlier race-based persecutions.

Evidence

The exclusion of anyone who was not a free white man from accessing citizenship reflects this truth about public discourse and democracy. While the War on Drugs maintained a system of oppression and surveillance of African Americans, the War on Terror places Muslim bodies under the watchful eye of the state and citizens, resulting in their exclusion from participation in democratic processes. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 631 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists.; Orientalism supplied the pre-existing tropes that the War on Terror redeployed against Muslims; War on Terror oppression of Muslims parallels War on Drugs targeting of African Americans — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 631 (+6 more)

Related

• The War on Terror extended decades of American imperial aggression against Muslims. (similarity 0.91)
• War on Terror oppression of Muslims parallels War on Drugs targeting of African Americans (similarity 0.86)
• War on Terror rhetoric recycled the enemy-alien logic of Japanese internment. (similarity 0.85)
• The War on Terror recycled COINTELPRO-era racial policing tactics against Muslims (similarity 0.83)
• The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. (similarity 0.83)
• The War on Terror racializes all Muslims as a boundless enemy to justify war (similarity 0.82)
• The War on Terror made the words Muslim and terrorism virtually synonymous (similarity 0.81)
• The War on Terror recycled pre-existing Orientalist academic discourse into state violence (similarity 0.81)
• The War on Terror weaponizes an invented Orientalist past to victimize Muslims today (similarity 0.80)
• US War on Terror frames enable mass internment and ethnic cleansing abroad. (similarity 0.80)
• The War on Terror fused the concepts of Muslim and terrorist. (similarity 0.79)
• The War on Terror shifted Muslim Americans down the racial hierarchy away from whiteness (similarity 0.79)
• War on Terror racism treats Muslim culture as an immutable natural cause of violence (similarity 0.79)
• War on Terror homogenized Muslims the way earlier eras homogenized Native Americans and Africans (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• War on Terror rhetoric recycled the enemy-alien logic of Japanese internment. #expands (0.70)
• Orientalism supplied the pre-existing tropes that the War on Terror redeployed against Muslims #expands (0.60)
• War on Terror oppression of Muslims parallels War on Drugs targeting of African Americans #expands (0.55) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 631
• The War on Terror was ideologically framed as a civilizational clash #expands (0.40)
• Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric increased American hostility toward Muslims. #expands (0.35) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 261
• Religious identity replaced ethnicity as the marker making Muslim Americans seen as anti-American #expands (0.35)