Challenged racial absolutism escalates violence rather than moderating it

Evidence

As I have argued, the violence committed by Canadian peacekeepers against Somalis must be understood as a colonial violence, born of the conviction that it is the white man’s burden to civilize and keep in line through force racial others awaiting assistance into modernity. The acts of violence committed against Somalis convinced the soldiers of their own masculine, racial, and national superiority. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 144 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racialized neighborhood boundaries are violently enforced against Black and brown bodies — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 490; Racial dominance’s violence is self-defeating, deepening its own isolation and paranoia; The incoherence of racial classification laws required escalating violence to enforce (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Violence against racial others functions to convince perpetrators of their own superiority #complicates (0.72) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 144