Refugees from US-war-devastated nations are stigmatized as terror threats while Ukrainian refugees are welcomed

Evidence

His message was clear. “European” meant “white.” Which together stood for everything wholly and “relatively civilized.” Unlike Iraq or Afghanistan, the two nations decimated by two decades of American war and terror, which represented bastions of incivility, extremism, and “forever war.” Immigrants fleeing these nations, and refugees flung across the world, carried the threat of terror with them. Stained with this stigma and devoid of the whiteness held by Ukrainian refugees, they were cast as undesirables by the very nations that opened their borders and arms to the blue-eyed and blond-haired victims of the Russian siege. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1203

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Directly parallels the reader’s cross-reading with Iftikhar on the global, coordinated shape of Islamophobia.
• SEED: Angle: the counterfactual framing that US-led war produced the very refugees whose nations are now dismissed as uncivilized.

Related

• Refugee receptions during the Ukraine war were racially stratified by whiteness (similarity 0.91)
• Ukrainian refugees earned an immigration goodwill denied to Arab and Muslim refugees. (similarity 0.86)
• Mainstream Western media framed Ukrainian refugees as more civilized than Arab and Afghan ones. (similarity 0.85)
• Western immigration tolerance is contingent on refugees being Ukrainian and white (similarity 0.82)
• Western immigration solidarity applied to Ukrainians but not to Muslim refugees (similarity 0.82)
• War crimes against nonwhite Muslims draw far less Western support than Ukraine’s (similarity 0.79)
• Racialized framing makes identical resistance heroic for Ukrainians and terrorist for Muslims (similarity 0.79)
• Imperial war abroad delivered refugees directly into domestic racial marginalization. (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobia has become a global phenomenon beyond American racism (similarity 0.79)
• The freedom-fighter versus terrorist distinction is intensely racial (similarity 0.78)
• Ukraine coverage exposed the unequal valuation of Muslim versus European lives (similarity 0.78)
• ‘European’ operates as a code word for white that justifies selective international concern (similarity 0.78)
• Calling out the racial double standard falls short of the humanizing coverage refugees need (similarity 0.78)
• Liberal media voices joined populist racism in ranking Ukrainian lives above Muslim ones (similarity 0.78)