“Whiteness” is the name for the elimination of all persons not designated “white.” That whiteness may or may not correlate to skin tone. It may eliminate by removal. It may be content to let the slow violences (as Rob Nixon has it) of environmental collapse, epidemics and poverty do its work. Or not, as now.

When genocide becomes “fast,” violent and deliberate, as it has since October 7th, whiteness mobilizes, catalyzes, and accelerates. In these past 14 months, it has been enabled by AI, the cloud, drones and “smart” bombs. Digital genocide is not virtual. 

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In all cases, “they” (the non-white, non-straight, non-citizen) are to be denied in favor of “us” (the old and new white people). This “us” is the digitally-imagined exclusionary nation, whether in “France for the French,” “Make America Great Again,” or Brexit. Or, in its now exemplary form, the Zionist concept of Israel as a country where only Jews can be citizens."

Solidarity in the Age of Digital Genocide

Nicholas Mirzoeff Dec 6