Erasing a group’s past erases its claim on the nation-state

Evidence

If you are not memorable, if you have no worthy history, then you are deemed to have no claim not simply on national remembrance but on the nation-state itself, because you are seen to have no place in it. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 136 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Persecution secretly hopes to erase its own last trace; Tamil place names are being replaced to erase minority territorial claims; Groups channel their history through trusted non-state institutions when the state disavows it — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 1047 (+14 more)

Broader Connections

• Lacking remembered history forfeits one’s claim to the nation-state. #corroborates (0.98) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 136