Fighting-‘them-there’ war logic is race war in denial relying on racial discounting

Evidence

If we can just seed democracy “there” we will not have to struggle with their disaffection “here at home.” But far from a democracy denuded of race, this articulation is quietly predicated on it. The price of blindness is blowback. The slippages between “war in Iraq” and “war against” and “on Iraq” offer the terrain of “race war” in denial, war through racial proxy rendered invisible. Occupation and the making of permanently temporary states are conceivable only in the case of local indigenes whose fullness of being, claim to sanctity of place and dignity of person can be racially discounted. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1855

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The war on terror’s spatial reasoning silently depends on racial discounting of local peoples — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1855; Race thinking covertly persists in ‘values’ discourse about the war on terror — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 37; The ‘war on terror’ is a racial war rendered invisible through denial (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The ‘war on terror’ is a racial war rendered invisible through denial #corroborates (0.95)
• The war on terror’s spatial reasoning silently depends on racial discounting of local peoples #corroborates (0.93) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1855
• Race thinking covertly persists in ‘values’ discourse about the war on terror #corroborates (0.88) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 37
• Post-racial claims actually deny ongoing racism rather than racial identity #corroborates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 147