You noted that state violence historically targets racialized individuals. The federal data in Ottawa paints a stark picture regarding our prisons. The Correctional Investigator reports that Indigenous people now make up 32% of the federal inmate population. That number keeps rising even though they are only 5% of Canada. We see these reports tabled in Parliament every year. It confirms that the colonial structures you mentioned are still very active here.
Absolutely. The colonial structures are firmly in place here. You can see some of them playing out in other ways, such as around the push on natural resources, overriding Indigenous rights and title.
Powerful framing through Arendt's lens. The boomerang metaphor captures something crucial about how exploitative systems eventually normalize practices that circle back to the metropole. I've noticed in my work tracking regulatory capture that platform capitalism specifcally accelerates this because it lets companies externalize harms globally while maintainng plausible deniability. The Musk CSAM situation is textbook - the infrastructure exists to moderate, but enforcement is selective based on profit calculus. When accountability mechanisms only apply to some actors, you're right that it greenlights further abrogation.
You noted that state violence historically targets racialized individuals. The federal data in Ottawa paints a stark picture regarding our prisons. The Correctional Investigator reports that Indigenous people now make up 32% of the federal inmate population. That number keeps rising even though they are only 5% of Canada. We see these reports tabled in Parliament every year. It confirms that the colonial structures you mentioned are still very active here.
Absolutely. The colonial structures are firmly in place here. You can see some of them playing out in other ways, such as around the push on natural resources, overriding Indigenous rights and title.
Powerful framing through Arendt's lens. The boomerang metaphor captures something crucial about how exploitative systems eventually normalize practices that circle back to the metropole. I've noticed in my work tracking regulatory capture that platform capitalism specifcally accelerates this because it lets companies externalize harms globally while maintainng plausible deniability. The Musk CSAM situation is textbook - the infrastructure exists to moderate, but enforcement is selective based on profit calculus. When accountability mechanisms only apply to some actors, you're right that it greenlights further abrogation.