Europe’s Holocaust focus erases its colonial race history

Evidence

But in making the Holocaust the referent point for race, in the racial erasure thus enacted in the European theater another evaporation is enacted. Europe’s colonial history and legacy dissipate if not disappear. The Holocaust is – it belongs to – Europe. It transpired on European soil, it continues to traumatize political dialogue and debate in Europe, it closes down critical themes in public discourse, it effects certain closures on what can be said and what not. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 823

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Direct evidence for the contact/institution gap reasoning: how institutional memorialization of one atrocity forecloses naming of another ongoing axis — parallels argument structure in the immodesty article about moral panics selecting some bodies over others.
• XREF: connects to: Holocaust memorialization lets Europe deny its colonial racial past — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 826; Centering the Holocaust erases Europe’s own colonial history — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 823; Europe’s Holocaust-centric memory silences its colonial legacy as race denial. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 826 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Centering the Holocaust erases Europe’s own colonial history #corroborates (0.97) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 823
• Europe’s Holocaust-centric memory silences its colonial legacy as race denial. #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 826
• The Holocaust’s singularity framing obscured its colonial continuity #corroborates (0.90) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 890
• European post-WWII racial denial wants race to erase itself but never succeeds #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 815