‘European’ operates as a code word for white that justifies selective international concern
Evidence
- ” ‘European’ has become a code word for white and a justification of the primary reason that people should care about the conflict, displacement, and killing. Bloody conflicts in Syria, Somalia, and other places have not received the wide-reaching international media coverage—or urgent international government action—that the invasion of Ukraine has inspired.” Rashawn Ray, “The Russian Invasion of Ukraine Shows Racism Has No Boundaries,” Brookings, March 3, 2022. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1815
Categorization
- SEED: The ‘European-as-white’ code is a sharp angle for an essay on how selective humanitarian outrage maps onto Islamophobic hierarchies of who counts as worthy of care.
- CANDY: A tweetable, memorable claim about European coded as white in global crisis response.