what the usg would have called sedition or espionage in the early 1st Am days, it now labels as terrorism. nat sec has always been about viewpoint discrim to protect whiteness from “others.” a witch hunt
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Genevieve Lakier
This is the dark heart & power of the war on terror discourse: its capacity to magically transform political expression into terrorism, and therefore deny an entire class of speakers the right to speak. We are seeing it play out aggressively in real time right now and it is terrifying.
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