Racism’s strategy is estrangement via expulsion or extermination, interchangeably
Evidence
The consequence is that racism is inevitably associated with the strategy of estrangement. If conditions allow, racism demands that the offending category ought to be removed beyond the territory occupied by the group it offends. If such conditions are absent, racism requires that the offending category is physically exterminated. Expulsion and destruction are two mutually exchangeable methods of estrangement. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 190
Categorization
- XREF: This substitution of expulsion and extermination connects to necropolitics (Mbembe) — the sovereign decision on who may live and who must die. — connects to: Racism repositions its targets from repentable sinners to unregenerable vermin — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 209; Racism functions as practices that ascribe and legitimate social positions; An ethnic minority identity invites questions while a Muslim identity invites hostile expulsion (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Racism repositions its targets from repentable sinners to unregenerable vermin
#expands(0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 209 - Forced emigration of a minority functions as propaganda that spreads the persecutor’s ideology abroad
#expands(0.85) - Racism functions as practices that ascribe and legitimate social positions
#expands(0.80) - An ethnic minority identity invites questions while a Muslim identity invites hostile expulsion
#exemplifies(0.78)