Whiteness confers presumed belonging while nonwhiteness signals perpetual foreignness
Evidence
Perhaps white supremacy’s most absurd lie is that Europeans “discovered” lands that had been inhabited by indigenous peoples for centuries, a lie that roots the modern entitlement of “regular white men” like Brenton Tarrant, who believes that a nation of which he is not even a citizen is “his land.” This is part of the broader presumption white supremacy has created over generations, particularly in settler-colonial states like New Zealand and Australia, namely, that whiteness itself triggers the presumption of belonging and ownership. On the other hand, nonwhiteness raises the very opposite beliefs: perpetual foreignness, transience, and with regard to Muslims, danger. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 908
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- DEFINE: Lays out the belonging-versus-foreignness presumption at the heart of settler-state Islamophobia.
- XREF: The mechanism that unifies the Australian and New Zealand cases the reader is tracking.
Related
- Whiteness grants presumptive belonging that race-neutral legal status does not (similarity 0.87)
- Whiteness served as a racial passport granting Tarrant proprietorship over a foreign land. (similarity 0.84)
- Whiteness severs victims from land claims and legitimates ownership (similarity 0.81)
- Land entitlement claims rest on race rather than history in settler colonies (similarity 0.79)
- Whiteness operates as a racial passport that overrides legal citizenship status (similarity 0.79)
- White supremacy in settler colonies moves from indigenous genocide to anti-Muslim massacre (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Whiteness links beauty with citizenship and uncontested belonging.
#corroborates(0.75) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 247 - Whiteness is categorically dissociated from the label of terrorism regardless of evidence
#exemplifies(0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 934