Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery. Henry Giroux More Quotes by Henry Giroux More Quotes From Henry Giroux Collective insurance policies and social protections have given way to the forces of economic deregulation, the transformation of the welfare state into punitive workfare programs, the privatization of public goods and an appeal to individual accountability as a substitute for social responsibility. Henry Giroux deregulation accountability responsibility I think that's where we can both seize upon the contradictions and push them to limits that these people would not consider, while at the same time in some way you're taking advantage of what these people are saying within a discourse that has some legitimacy. Henry Giroux people way thinking Margaret Thatcher in Britain and soon after Ronald Reagan in the United States - both hard-line advocates of market fundamentalism - announced that there was no such thing as society and that government was the problem not the solution. Democracy and the political process were all but sacrificed to the power of corporations and the emerging financial service industries, just as hope was appropriated as an advertisement for a whitewashed world in which the capacity of culture to critique oppressive social practices was greatly diminished. Henry Giroux political government practice All of this in [Donald] Trump now has become so overt that it's difficult when we talk about repression not to talk about white supremacy, not to talk about its legacy, from slavery to lynching to mass incarceration, and what it has developed into. Henry Giroux lynching legacy white I mean, think of Flint. I mean, think of the lead poisoning of thousands of poor and black children across the United States. Henry Giroux mean children thinking Under a neoliberal regime, the language of authority, power and command is divorced from ethics, social responsibility, critical analysis and social costs. Henry Giroux critical-analysis cost responsibility I mean, with the exception of Bernie Sanders, the Black Lives Movement, it's very difficult to, in a sense, especially since the 1980s, to talk about what the social contract is and what it means, and what it means to celebrate public goods, what it means to make, create social investments. Henry Giroux black movement mean I also think that one of the things we often fail to realize is that that kind of violence is now legitimated in multiple public spheres. Henry Giroux spheres violence thinking Given that by age 23, almost a third of Americans are arrested for a crime, it becomes clear that in the new militarized state young people, especially poor minorities, are viewed as predators, a threat to corporate governance, and are treated as disposable populations. Henry Giroux population age people The domestic war against "terrorists" [code for young protesters] provides new opportunities for major defense contractors and corporations who are becoming more a part of our domestic lives. Henry Giroux defense opportunity war Everyone is now considered a potential terrorist, providing a rational for both the government and private corporations to spy on anybody, regardless of whether they have committed a crime. Surveillance is supplemented by a growing domestic army of baton-wielding police forces who are now being supplied with the latest military equipment. Henry Giroux army government military The war on terror, rebranded under Obama as the "Overseas Contingency Operation," has morphed into war on democracy. Henry Giroux operations democracy war As modern society is formed against the backdrop of a permanent war zone, a carceral state and hyper-militarism, the social stature of the military and soldiers has risen. Henry Giroux military soldier war We no longer have the public spheres available to be able to contest that violence. We don't see it in the mainstream media, we no longer see it in the schools. I mean, this endless criminalization, militarization, of every form of behavior, I mean, strikes me as one of the most dangerous and one of the most ever-growing threats to the United States, of which that speech exemplifies perfectly, and which [Donald] Trump exemplifies with the endless call for law and order. Henry Giroux media mean school Within the United States especially, the often violent response to nonviolent forms of youth protests must be analyzed within the framework of a mammoth military-industrial state and its commitment to war and the militarization of the entire society. Henry Giroux military war commitment War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research funds, and forms of political and economic power that reach into every aspect of society. Henry Giroux political jobs war The merging of the military-industrial complex, surveillance state and unbridled corporate power points to the need for strategies that address what is specific about the current warfare and surveillance state and the neoliberal project and how different interests, modes of power, social relations, public pedagogies and economic configurations come together to shape its politics. Henry Giroux surveillance-state military together History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology. Henry Giroux appeals horizon ends Politicians such as Michelle Bachmann, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich along with talking heads such as Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck and Anne Coulter are not the problem, they are symptomatic of a much more disturbing assault on critical thought, if not rational thinking itself. Henry Giroux bills talking thinking I mean, we're not talking about simply racism, we're taking about white supremacy. Henry Giroux white talking mean
