Imperial Racism
Racism, the ideology that came into full flower as a justification for European conquest of most of the planet, is now headquartered in the United States with an annex in Israel. Tel Aviv is a very active annex.
There could be no justification for George Bush’s aggressions, without the underlying assumptions of racial superiority. Bush has committed multiple crimes against peace, a capital Nuremburg offense for which a number of Nazis were hanged. He is a war criminal, many times over. However, he will never be prosecuted in the United States, because of the pervasive ideology of imperialism, which is racist at its very core: it dehumanizes the victims.
Race is, indeed, a construction, a very convenient one when you want to take someone else’s property, or kill them, or enslave them. It is this construct that animates the American debate about foreign policy, or even domestic policy when it comes to ‘aliens’of one kind or another.
But it is deadly. It swarms countries, and consumes cities. Fallujah was flattened, with its main hospital the first target. Three hundred thousand people are now refugees in their own country, because of US actions, and an unknown number are dead. That is a war crime, but is not seen as such by most of the US public, who are under the sway of the ideology of imperial racism. The death of an entire city does not matter to them, because there were no real people there. Racism does more than color the situation, it defines it. How do you kill a city and call it victory? Why is this celebrated as a benchmark of ‘progress’? Is the assumption that the white man’s triumph is, inherently, progress?
Of course it is. That’s what imperial racism is all about. There are ‘enemies’ and ‘others’ who are not ‘Western’, a euphemism for ‘non-white’, the construct they keep making up every time they want to steal something.
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