Permanent occupation requires discounting the occupied people’s full humanity

Evidence

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: The threatened-privilege logic generalizes: endogenous populations must be racially discounted to sustain permanent temporary states — echoing how privileged groups render others as not fully equal recipients of protections. — connects to: Occupation works by keeping a state permanently unsettled and non-sovereign — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1812; Totalitarian consistency demands destruction of human dignity because dignity implies creative unpredictability — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1031; Permanent occupations skewed toward those free to idle, then faded anyway

Broader Connections

• Occupation works by keeping a state permanently unsettled and non-sovereign #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1812
• Totalitarian consistency demands destruction of human dignity because dignity implies creative unpredictability #complicates (0.78) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1031