Colonial life inoculated even leftist settlers with unconscious racism

Evidence

In Tarrant’s mind, and in the white supremacist imagination, claims to land are not a historical but a purely racial matter. This was true when English colonialists wiped out Australia and New Zealand’s indigenous populations from their soil and true when Tarrant—a foreign national traveling to New Zealand—walked into the two Christchurch mosques and killed fifty-one citizens and legal residents. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 909 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Land entitlement claims rest on race rather than history in settler colonies (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial dispositions are trained, contested, and deliberately interpreted (similarity 0.82)
• Racism is a constitutive, foundational element of colonialism rather than an incidental detail. (similarity 0.81)
• Racism supplied the ideological license for US settler-colonial expansion. (similarity 0.80)
• Anti-Muslim racism is interwoven with settler colonialism, police violence, and the prison system (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it (similarity 0.79)
• A colonized intellectual living in Europe acquires Europe’s racist unconscious (similarity 0.79)
• The colonized person’s inferiority is created by the European’s superiority, not pre-existing. (similarity 0.78)
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• A colonized intellectual living in Europe acquires Europe’s racist unconscious #epitomizes (0.72)
• Land entitlement claims rest on race rather than history in settler colonies #expands (0.55) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 909
• Racism is a constitutive, foundational element of colonialism rather than an incidental detail. #corroborates (0.50)
• Colonial racism welded dynastic legitimacy to national community by universalizing inherited superiority #responds-to (0.40) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 96