Rights to property and speech double as markers of racial incapacity.

Evidence

In marking the constitution of modernity, each becomes a sign also of incapacity, of an inherent or historical human lack. The lack of private property and the projected impossibility of civil speech serve as measures of racial inability, inherent or manifest. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 79

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to how ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ and other work treat putatively universal rights as class/identity markers. — connects to: Segregationist legislation was justified in the language of property rights and liberty — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1468; Sacralized politics racializes others to make their rights violatable — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 107