Reduced to mere humanity, the stateless cling to nationality as their last tie

Evidence

The survivors of the extermination camps, the inmates of concentration and internment camps, and even the comparatively happy stateless people could see without Burke’s arguments that the abstract nakedness of being nothing but human was their greatest danger. Because of it they were regarded as savages and, afraid that they might end by being considered beasts, they insisted on their nationality, the last sign of their former citizenship, as their only remaining and recognized tie with humanity. Their distrust of natural, their preference for national, rights comes precisely from their realization that natural rights are granted even to savages. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 732

Categorization

• XREF: Mechanism paralleling racialization in the Islamophobia corpus: stripping membership relegates people to the ‘savage/beast’ register, a dehumanizing taxonomy.
• QUESTION: How does Arendt’s ‘naked savagery’ register connect to Orientalist renderings of the colonized as closer to nature?