“Both creator and destroyer, the bulldozer offers a cautionary tale for how technology without proper safeguards can be misused to the detriment of individual and collective life.”

The bulldozer evolved from a tool of coercion during Reconstruction-era voter suppression into a symbol of technological power systematically weaponized against marginalized communities worldwide. From India’s discriminatory demolitions to Palestinian home destruction, machines become instruments of state violence when deployed without ethical safeguards. As one observer put it: “The Bomb and the Bulldozer are out of the same technological Pandora’s Box.”