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Governmental Violence and Denial
2016
Overview
We have seen that white Americans deny the injuries and injustices suffered by African Americans and other people of color, and that certain intellectuals still perpetuate and rationalize racism by arguing that black people are biologically less intelligent than whites. The argument is frighteningly reminiscent of the race theories the Nazis used to justify the extermination of six million Jews and some five million other “undesirables”—gypsies, Poles, handicapped people, and homosexuals.
In this chapter, we first explore some of the ways governments successfully appeal to residual childhood emotions of rage, fear, and shame to gain public support for war
