Security purchased through racial destruction is inherently self-undermining

Evidence

My killing those supposedly racially not like me secures the projection of my racial being; but in predicating my security on a foundation that motivates a counter-killing equally racially predicated, my security is coterminously and at the deepest level an insecurity. Security through the destruction of those not (like) me is tantamount to the insecurity and ultimately threat and fear of death of the self-denyingly secure. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 145

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A dense dialectical inversion: racialized security built on others’ death is structurally self-defeating because it motivates reciprocal killing, so the ‘secure’ are never secure. This resists one-sentence summary and repays sitting with it.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how security regimes produce their own threats — echoes of the ‘security through destruction is insecurity’ logic in contemporary counterterror and arms-race literature. — connects to: Security-seeking purification inevitably intensifies the very insecurity it targets — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1835; Total racial hatred is self-destructive because it erases too much of one’s own humanity — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 798; White supremacy is economically and geopolitically self-harmful — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 668 (+1 more)
• SEED: The dialectic of racialized security-as-insecurity could anchor an essay on how security states manufacture the threats they claim to repel, from Israeli security doctrine to US preemptive strikes.