Re: <nettime> toppopcops

'Policing' is no more a metaphor than 'lynching' or 'witch-hunts.' Treating them as metaphors obscures and inverts the power structures that they illustrate. Black people are disproportionately policed; lynching was a terror campaign against black people; Federici wrote an interesting book on patriarchy and the history of witch-hunts in Europe; etc. I don't know what the reference to heaven is about. For the record, I don't see fascism as a variety of sin, eternal and indelible. It's just counter-revolutionary violence, often legitimated through Christian tropes of apocalypticism or purgatorial redemption. The Vatican happily dealt with fascist governments; the Ku Klux Klan was organised as a Protestant religious order; Trump's 'base' is not "the white working class," but (as every research suggests) white evangelicals (same with Bolsanaro); etc.

Angela

On Fri, 9 Nov 2018 at 07:48, ari <ari@kein.org> wrote:

And so identity narcissism has given the cops the upper hand.
You're all going to heaven, which is full of cops like you.
Enjoy!

// angela.mitropoulos

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