USAJusticeWatch<p>That's Bait: ‘The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Noem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Noem</span></a> video, like the ASMR video of faceless immigrants being shackled, dares us to name their intention: the sadistic eroticization of power. The trap is: name it, & then you’re the pervert, the one makes something perfectly ordinary—a White House video (or, fetish porn), a video of a cabinet secretary (or, Lara Croft with shirtless caged men)—weird. Which is why we have to identify the whole apparatus of the trap, not just the bait.’ | Jeff Sharlet <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/slowcivilwar/p/thats-bait?r=7p2cc&utm_medium=ios" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/slowcivi</span><span class="invisible">lwar/p/thats-bait?r=7p2cc&utm_medium=ios</span></a></p>