No you're totally true but the backwards engineering of that practice tends to establish the bounds of the racial hierarchies and places them within the other hierarchies present. It's like execution - because it's one of the few things that the state does on your behalf - it gives a measurement of the statuses of people in the hierarchy. It's super clear who is valued and who isn't.
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Date: 2013-07-27 12:18 am (UTC)