Nationalists justify state violence by invoking other states’ conduct.

Evidence

Nationalists also justify excessive and indiscriminate force against Tamil civilians by pointing to Indian actions in Kashmir, U.S. actions in Iraq, and Israeli actions in Lebanon and the Palestinian occupied territories. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 236

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to how moral correction/referencing of outside norms affects threat-hardened belief — the opposite of expected rational correction, since outside examples are co-opted as justification rather than critique. — connects to: Market-liberal doctrine was used to justify state violence against political opponents. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 327; Nationalist theory translations were politically deployed to intervene in local conflicts — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 828; Ideological language precedes and enables state violence against target groups

Broader Connections

• Ideological language precedes and enables state violence against target groups #expands (0.78)
• Market-liberal doctrine was used to justify state violence against political opponents. #expands (0.75) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 327
• Nationalist theory translations were politically deployed to intervene in local conflicts #exemplifies (0.72) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 828