The Deadliest Arm of Racial Empire Logic. Part II
Child exploitation persists through patriarchal organization of disposability. Children are positioned as objects of control instead of political subjects with authority over their own bodies. That positioning intensifies when children exist at intersections of poverty, racialization, disability, undocumented status, or institutionalization. In... See more
Christian Ortiz • The Deadliest Arm of Racial Empire Logic. Part II
In the United States, CDC reporting shows that maternal mortality for Black women remained far higher than for white women in 2023, demonstrating how racial empire and patriarchy converge inside medicine even when bureaucratic language reframes design as risk (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2025). For trans and questioning youth, the... See more
Christian Ortiz • The Deadliest Arm of Racial Empire Logic. Part II
Patriarchy operates as a governing technology that disciplines bodies long before police, borders, or prisons appear. It’s embedded in family roles, religious authority, medical standards, legal definitions of harm, and cultural narratives about obedience and worth. Its power resides in normalization rather than spectacle. It’s treated as... See more
Christian Ortiz • The Deadliest Arm of Racial Empire Logic. Part II
Immigration and asylum systems reproduce patriarchy through their treatment of gendered violence as “private.” That classification becomes justification for denying credibility and protection. Survivors are required to perform perfect victimhood, translate trauma into institutional timelines, and prove danger within systems that routinely doubt... See more
Christian Ortiz • The Deadliest Arm of Racial Empire Logic. Part II
Racial Empire Logic functions as the operating system that turns land, labor, bodies, and truth into managed property for extraction and control. Patriarchy operates as one of its enforcement technologies. It organizes entitlement to women, children, and gender-diverse bodies as social normativity, then routes that entitlement through law,... See more
Christian Ortiz • The Deadliest Arm of Racial Empire Logic. Part II
Patriarchy produces death at scale through its control over disposability, credibility of pain, and negotiability of survival.
Naming patriarchy isn’t symbolic language. It’s structural exposure. Patriarchy must be identified as a primary engine of Racial Empire Logic, or the system remains intact while its victims are misdiagnosed as anomalies. The... See more
Naming patriarchy isn’t symbolic language. It’s structural exposure. Patriarchy must be identified as a primary engine of Racial Empire Logic, or the system remains intact while its victims are misdiagnosed as anomalies. The... See more