Violence deployed for security inevitably deepens the insecurity it targets.

Evidence

The securing of distinction is sought, then, by holding at bay or disrupting those forces seen to threaten the grounds – the culture – of judgment’s possibility. Distinction and the forms of judgment it enables are thus extended by delimiting or destroying the sources of its insecurity, its challenges, its vulnerabilities. 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. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1835 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Security-seeking purification inevitably intensifies the very insecurity it targets — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1835; Crackdowns traumatize protesters so deeply that false alarms trigger terror — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 534; Violence pursued for security reliably produces more of the insecurity it targets. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1835 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Violence pursued for security reliably produces more of the insecurity it targets. #corroborates (0.99) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1835