White fragility historically fueled displacement, incarceration, and imperial wars

Evidence

This forecast has only exacerbated that white fragility that stifles candid conversations about racism today, and that for centuries drove mass displacement and Manifest Destiny, mass incarceration and enslavement. A fragility so precarious and potent that it also fuels imperial ambitions old and new, as evident most vividly in the War on Terror and its domestic and global crusades to maintain the demographic and political supremacy of whites—at all costs. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1138

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s goal of linking the domestic American and global War on Terror as one coordinated condition; reads alongside Iftikhar’s global synthesis.