Discursive battles over genocide labels shape violence itself, not just its description

Evidence

When international authorities and activists on issues of genocide and human rights fail to recognize (in both senses of the term) the links between elite discussions of genocide and those that emerge in circumstances of suffering and violence, and when they decree that the deployment of genocide accusations must be contingent on the strict application of legalistic frameworks, they intervene profoundly in the discursive contestations that shape such situations and their effects. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 289

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the analytic point in the opening sentence of 288 — that discourse is part of how violence is produced, legitimized, and challenged. — connects to: Genocide labelling of farm murders legitimizes extreme acts against out-groups; Historical events re-presented as genocide can reshape victim and perpetrator identity threats — Nurit Shnabel and Johannes Ullrich, Identity Needs in Intergroup Relations:…, 60
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 289