Concealed police footage reveals racial violence as performed fantasy for the group

Evidence

By contrast, Arafat’s interminable history, of course, was one of too often tragic and occasionally comic mistimings, miscues, and misdirections. The consequences were more than often bitter, even devastating, as much for his own people he claimed to represent as for Israelis he clearly did resent. Orientalize the Palestinian, philistinize him, and he will act out accordingly. The Arab is a dog, Arik had always said, the prototypical Judas; she a whore, the quintessential Delilah. He will howl, keeping you awake at night; she will infect you, blind you, sucking away your strength. Kill as many “worms” as you can, the Sharonites have always implored, for fear they will otherwise overrun you. Take their land, for it is ours. Destroy their houses, villages, olive groves, for they do not belong. We should have done so long ago; let’s finish it now. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 618 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Surveillance footage revealed racial violence as performed private-fantasy theatre — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1235; Covertly filmed racist fantasy performances become public spectacle, blurring intention and display — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1235; Racist violence becomes sexually charged to sustain the fiction of permanent racial difference (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Racializing a people can induce them to enact the very caricature assigned to them #complicates (0.76) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 618