Casting a people as rootless or land-unattached precedes genocide everywhere

Evidence

What Du Bois and Césaire tried to tell us is that culture, language, science, and economy are no protection against genocide—all it takes is sufficient military force wielded by a power willing to denounce your culture as savage and declare you brutes. That is the story of colonial violence the world over. Casting people as unattached to land—because they practice a different form of agriculture, because they move with the seasons, whatever story served the end goal—has always been a precursor to genocide. Jews were declared “rootless” before they were slaughtered, much as colonial powers had declared Indigenous peoples nomadic and therefore uncivilized as a prelude to stealing their land on pain of annihilation on every continent on the planet. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 893

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The pattern claimed here — declaring a people unattached to land as a precondition for slaughter — is dense enough to reframe how one reads settler-colonial justifications across continents.
• XREF: Connects directly to Klein’s own Mirror World thesis: the uprootedness claim is a precursor, and her doubling device (being displaced by Wolf) makes this visceral.