Resource control by non-Western peoples is framed as a moral disqualification

Evidence

Aside from his anti-Zionism, the Arab is an oil supplier. This is another negative characteristic, since most accounts of Arab oil equate the oil boycott of 1973–1974 (which principally benefitted Western oil companies and a small ruling Arab elite) with the absence of any Arab moral qualifications for owning such vast oil reserves. Without the usual euphemisms, the question most often being asked is why such people as the Arabs are entitled to keep the developed (free, democratic, moral) world threatened. From such questions comes the frequent suggestion that the Arab oil fields be invaded by the marines. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 728

Categorization

• SEED: The claim that oil ownership by Arabs is itself read as an offense against a ‘moral’ West is a sharp angle for an essay connecting resource geopolitics to the scaffolding theory of othering.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 728
• XREF: connects to: Denying recognition to traditional food systems produces food insecurity — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 302