Racial marking rationalizes violence by framing targets as unruleable beasts

Evidence

Those thus seen as threatening to disrupt these authorized economic, informational, and cultural flows, movements, placements and positionings – the media of value and significance, of capital, after all – become more or less explicitly racially marked, racial rogues, mutant states. They are racially marked in belonging to one or other group, racially conceived, considered threatening. The racial marking of the targets serves to rationalize – both to economize and legitimize – the invocation of violence. The racially targeted are represented as beastly, roguish, unruly because ultimately unrule-able. Out of the ordinary, errors of nature, they remain beyond the reach of the regular rule of law, narrowly or metaphorically conceived. They are (to be) subjected to racial duress. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1814

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the mechanism by which racial marking converts threats to capital flows into legitimized targets of violence.
• XREF: connects to: Racial framing decides which killers get mythologized versus executed by police — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1751