Security-seeking purification inevitably intensifies the very insecurity it targets

Evidence

And yet all forms of violence for the sake – the sacralization – of security ultimately exacerbate insecurity. The production and exaggeration of non-belonging over neighborliness, of strangers over interlocutors, of enemies over conceivable collaborators inevitably materialize (into) the objects most feared. Born of insecurity, purification invariably prompts its intensification. Racial americanization and racial palestinianization have provided abundant evidence. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1835

Categorization

• XREF: Strongly parallels the threatened-privilege mechanism: group efforts to secure dominance exacerbate the status threat they fear. Useful for the reader’s generalization test. — connects to: Security secured through another’s death is fundamentally insecurity; Violence deployed for security inevitably deepens the insecurity it targets.; Security purchased through racial destruction is inherently self-undermining — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 145 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Violence deployed for security inevitably deepens the insecurity it targets. #epitomizes (0.95)
• Violence pursued for security reliably produces more of the insecurity it targets. #corroborates (0.93) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1835
• Security purchased through racial destruction is inherently self-undermining #corroborates (0.88) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 145
• Security secured through another’s death is fundamentally insecurity #complicates (0.85)
• The liberties-versus-security binary justifies sacrificing out-group rights #qualifies (0.72) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 487