Imperialist discourses succeed through resonance rather than truth or intelligibility

Evidence

American history has proven, through formative passages of puritanical ethnic cleansing and eugenics-driven racial apartheid, that discourses need not be true or even intelligible. Discourses of imperialism and dehumanization just have to be resonant, palatable to crowds bent on vengeance, then remade into law. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 275

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Neocons deliberately campaign to shape public opinion for imperial wars