"Well, the first word that comes to mind is unprecedented. You've got federal officers roaming the streets just pulling people out of their cars based on how they look. This just doesn't happen in America. The joke is, of course, that this has been happening forever, but to Black people in America. Now that it is happening to others, and particularly now that white protesters are being killed in the streets, it is suddenly a national emergency."
"As Ida B Wells noted in her 1892 book Southern Horrors: They forget that a concession of the right to lynch a man for a certain crime concedes the right to lynch any person for any crime. Some commentators have taken the fact that the violence we are seeing is familiar in the US arbitrary killings by legal authorities to draw the conclusion that what we are seeing is not fascism, but just America as it always has been."
An observed escalation shows arbitrary policing practices long directed at Black Americans expanding toward broader populations, producing shock when white protesters are targeted. The imperial boomerang thesis frames how tactics used against colonial subjects abroad return domestically, transforming racialized exceptions into generalized state violence. Fascist dynamics emerge when arbitrary legal practices spread beyond prior exceptions, making extrajudicial killings a national emergency rather than a contained injustice. A historical warning holds that conceding the right to lynch for one alleged crime concedes the right to lynch any person for any crime. Normalizing such exceptions risks institutionalizing arbitrary violence across the populace.
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