Racial infantilization makes states vulnerable to occupation

Evidence

This cast(e)ing as infantile, “philistine,” mutant or rogue - in short, as aberrant - makes such states, where states at all, vulnerable to what in the case of Palestine has been characterized as the first “permanently temporary” state. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1810

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘philistinianization’ as Goldberg’s term for casting a people as infantile/philistine, rendering them vulnerable to domination.