Western genocidal forms share a common colonial frame of mind

Evidence

Existential threat is one of the foundations of the modern state’s conditions of possibility, a cornerstone of the political and the offspring of total sovereignty, epistemic as much as political. … Gradual genocides, settler colonialism, genocide as an event, nonsettler colonialism, structural genocide—different forms and different methods issuing from the same frame of mind, however much the active agents change, or appear to be different from one another. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 434

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the exterminative racial logic traced through settler-colonial studies and to coloniality-of-power scholarship on sovereignty.
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that Holocaust genocide, settler colonialism, and structural genocide issue from the same epistemic frame unifies distinct historical phenomena into one analytic.