Land entitlement claims rest on race rather than history in settler colonies
Evidence
In Tarrant’s mind, and in the white supremacist imagination, claims to land are not a historical but a purely racial matter. This was true when English colonialists wiped out Australia and New Zealand’s indigenous populations from their soil and true when Tarrant—a foreign national traveling to New Zealand—walked into the two Christchurch mosques and killed fifty-one citizens and legal residents. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 909
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Connects to the settler-colonial logic underlying the global Islamophobia thesis, tying March 15, 2019 to earlier imperial eras.
Related
- White supremacist land claims rest on race rather than citizenship or history (similarity 0.90)
- Colonial life inoculated even leftist settlers with unconscious racism (similarity 0.86)
- White supremacy in settler colonies moves from indigenous genocide to anti-Muslim massacre (similarity 0.83)
- Anti-Muslim racism is interwoven with settler colonialism, police violence, and the prison system (similarity 0.82)
- Tarrant’s mosque massacre continued settler-colonial genocides (similarity 0.81)
- Whiteness served as a racial passport granting Tarrant proprietorship over a foreign land. (similarity 0.81)
- Tarrant’s terror was never legally linked to settler-colonial genocide (similarity 0.80)
- White supremacist terror mirrors the founding colonial violence of settler nations. (similarity 0.79)
- Whiteness confers presumed belonging while nonwhiteness signals perpetual foreignness (similarity 0.79)
- White supremacy in Australia and New Zealand drives political Islamophobia in both settler states (similarity 0.78)