2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: "Interrupting Bernie: Exposing the White Supremacy of the American Left" [View all]zazen
(2,978 posts)You are conflating the biased action of law enforcement acting out of conscious or unconscious racism with the official state position.
That same law enforcement (and magistrates and judges) still act out of conscious and unconscious sexism (and racism) when dealing with violence against women, even though (only recently) the official state position is that they should not. i know they do from my own work with battered women as well as from reports from the field. Beyond law enforcement, the function of systematic male violence against women is that it comprises a society wide power structure that is as murderous as what law enforcement, in our country, is doing.
I'm not going to explain Foucault and other non-state power structures to you because you are doing all sorts of numbers here like using "logical fallacy" when in fact you're engaging in it and accusing me of all sorts of "insulting" behavior, when I'm sedate compared to other people on this board. So this is about something else. Whatever.
However, in a few years or so when you're open to another way of looking at things you might want to check out Carole Pateman on The Sexual Contract (an oldie but goodie) or Catharine MacKinnon's Toward a Feminist Theory of the State to look out how state power and male domination have been conflated in seemingly "neutral" language.
There's also the concept of intersectionality (Patricia Williams has a good book on it I think) that you might want to check out.
Later. Done here.