Sacralized racial hierarchy licenses unlimited violence against the demonized.

Evidence

Racial sacralization assumed the absolutization of the sovereign, unleashing cruelty towards the demonized without constraint. Condomizing the sacred community of the pure from pollution, moral degeneration, and dissolution licensed limitless violence by the guardians of the sacred against the perceived forces of debilitation. The self-elevated not only exercise absolute power; in assuming such absolutization they aspire to deific status. They thus mimicked God, becoming His rival, assertive in their absolutization shored up by their hegemonic reproduction of consent in and to their power. The more challenged their absolutizing power, the more assertive their resort to violence, ultimately deciding who should live and who suffer physical or social death. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1559

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sets out the racial-sacralization mechanism as a political theology: sovereign absolutization, pollution doctrine, and sacrificial license.
• ADDENDUM: Directly feeds the ‘On Sacrifice’ article’s thesis that ritual sacrifice stabilizes stratified societies — here the sacrificial logic of the racial polity is stated explicitly.
• XREF: connects to: Instrumental ethics tied to security justify unlimited violence against designated groups — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 912; Racialized regimes license privatized citizen violence against targeted groups. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1826; Race operates as sacred violence purchasing order through scapegoats — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1349 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Race operates as sacred violence purchasing order through scapegoats #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1349
• Racialized regimes license privatized citizen violence against targeted groups. #exemplifies (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1826
• Instrumental ethics tied to security justify unlimited violence against designated groups #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 912
• Sacralized racial community requires violence because messianic community is always being remade #expands (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1585
• Racialization operates as a form of warfare deciding who lives and dies #qualifies (0.75)