Racism’s core insecurity drives disproportionate violence against any resistance

Evidence

Central also to the rationality at work is the reckoning of rationalization and obfuscation, of rephrasing and reframing, of renaming and restating. This is a fragile rationality, indeed, as Foucault remarks more generally, one deeply insecure because always open to reversals, reprimands, recriminations, retaliations, revenge. The pathological insecurity at the heart of racial palestinianization, an insecurity that is simply the extreme embodiment of the characteristic insecurities of all racisms, calls forth the most pulverizing responses to any resistance as a way to cover over its own insecurities. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 649

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racialized minorities in white communities may integrate but never congregate without provoking violence