{"id":176,"date":"2016-02-19T02:07:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T02:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/19\/i-feel-like-a-despised-insect-coming-of-age\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:25:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:25:08","slug":"i-feel-like-a-despised-insect-coming-of-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2016\/02\/19\/i-feel-like-a-despised-insect-coming-of-age\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Feel Like a Despised Insect\u201d: Coming of Age Under Surveillance in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This kind of policing toward Muslim Americans exists because the public has countenanced it. Our tax dollars fund it. In many ways, Americans have acquiesced to the idea that \u201cour safety\u201d requires vigilance, which means more monitoring, more investigations, more preemptive prosecution. While many people have decried the indiscriminate surveillance of Muslim communities, there remains a widespread willingness to see certain kinds of ideas as dangerous. Armed with our fears, we allow this aggressive law enforcement, rarely having to look the consequences or these young people in the eye when we do.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI Feel Like a Despised Insect\u201d: Coming of Age Under Surveillance in New York<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This kind of policing toward Muslim Americans exists because the public has countenanced it. Our tax dollars fund it. 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