Arab oil wealth is framed as morally illegitimate
Evidence
Aside from his anti-Zionism, the Arab is an oil supplier. This is another negative characteristic, since most accounts of Arab oil equate the oil boycott of 1973–1974 (which principally benefitted Western oil companies and a small ruling Arab elite) with the absence of any Arab moral qualifications for owning such vast oil reserves. Without the usual euphemisms, the question most often being asked is why such people as the Arabs are entitled to keep the developed (free, democratic, moral) world threatened. From such questions comes the frequent suggestion that the Arab oil fields be invaded by the marines. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 728
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s scaffolding goal: this is an early, concrete instance of how resource wealth becomes grounds for racialized delegitimation and even invasion-suggestions.
Related
- Resource control by non-Western peoples is framed as a moral disqualification (similarity 0.90)
- Arab psychological incapacity for peace is asserted to justify endless conflict (similarity 0.79)
- Even positive legal portrayals of Arabs were limited to their past service to Europe. (similarity 0.79)
- Oil wealth unevenly distributed fractured Arab solidarity into separate state agendas. (similarity 0.79)