National security and civilization slogans act as proxies for protecting white wealth.

Evidence

That day felt like a call to action. I believe it was the day I first truly comprehended why Muslims were being cast as America’s new principal enemy, the foremost societal menace in that revolving door of racial groups that had to be pummeled to protect national security, or civilization, or Christianity—neatly crafted proxies for whiteness and the political and economic wealth it aimed to maintain and monopolize. It was the day when I decided to fully commit myself and my career to combating the war machine that fed the violence ravaging Muslims near and far. I had not yet heard the word “Islamophobia,” but I understood what it meant, and I understood that its scale was global. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 265

Categorization

• XREF: Links the revolving-door logic of racial substitution to the Frankfurt School’s analysis of authoritarian-democratic scapegoating, and to the concept that universalist categories mask particular interests.