和平武器化

摘要：美国种族正义的反对者经常将对和平、稳定与和谐的渴望作为武器，阻碍种族平等的实现。本文探讨了历史上以及在有关财产、教育、抗议和公共事业的法律案件中和平武器化的问题。这些和平主张往往是在缺乏证据或证据不足的情况下恶意提出的，它们声称要解决的不和谐问题实际上是敌视种族平等的结果。有一段时间，最高法院正是因为这些原因而拒绝了占主导地位的和平诉求。本文进一步记录了和平武器化在当前限制“黑人生命事件”抗议活动、诋毁警察拨款呼吁、取缔批判性种族理论和瓦解“反歧视行动”的尝试中的表现。通过将这些历史和当代论点联系起来，本论文发现，主流的和平逻辑掩盖了亚群体感受到的不公正、挫折和绝望。这篇文章呼吁对和平呼吁进行更仔细的审查，因为和平呼吁的主要作用是扼杀对种族正义的追求，维持不平等的现状。

Abstract: American racial justice opponents regularly wield a desire for peace, stability, and harmony as a weapon to hinder movement toward racial equality. This Essay examines the weaponization of peace historically and in legal cases about property, education, protest, and public utilities. Such peace claims were often made in bad faith and with little or no evidence, and the discord they claimed to address was actually the result of hostility to racial equality. For a time, the Supreme Court rejected dominant peace claims for precisely these reasons. This Essay further documents the weaponization of peace in current attempts to restrict Black Lives Matter protests, denigrate calls for police defunding, outlaw critical race theory, and dismantle affirmative action. By linking these historical and contemporary arguments, this Essay finds that dominant logics of peace mask the injustice, frustration, and despair felt by subordinated groups. The Essay urges closer scrutiny of appeals to peace that primarily function to stifle the pursuit of racial justice and to maintain status quo inequality.