European racial violence gets blamed on foreign imports rather than local conditions.

Evidence

Overall, the violence wells up as a result of processes abstract and alienating, making alien those less able or willing to comprehend local habits. Occasionally the outcome is social destruction alongside self-destruction, tightening the spiral of social recrimination, externalization, and sometime soul-searching. But more often than not this racially inscribed violence, now more and more reduced to the social panic of terrorism, is alienated as foreign import rather than home grown, the causes seen to have no grounding in local European conditions of hostility, resentment, and ignorance. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 941

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the treatment of terrorism as external versus homegrown — echoes debates about radicalization, and resonates with the reader’s past work on moral panics and externalization of blame.
• SEED: Angle: ‘externalizing blame as a racial technology’ — how societies consistently displace causally local violence onto foreign imports, and what this does to the possibility of reckoning.