Post #1675096
2026-03-18 19:50 UTC
@Spacehistory @blueorchestra At the moment the United States and Israel are engaged in a conflict that is being framed almost entirely in terms of security—threats, deterrence, stability, defense. But that language sits on top of something deeper. In both cases, ideas about security have long been shaped by how each state has dealt with populations marked as different, subordinate, or outside the full bounds of political belonging.
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@Deglassco@mastodon.social 2026-03-18 19:53
@Spacehistory @blueorchestra The point isn’t that every country has inequality. Of course they do. The question is what kind of inequality gets built into how the state actually works. I’m pointing to something specific here: that both developed through expansion and control of land while managing groups of people who weren’t given full political rights—and those distinctions were not just political, but racialized over time.