Allport treated intergroup hostility as politically innocent and easily corrected

Evidence

The bad news was that many individuals in privileged groups harbored a destructive hostility toward outgroups. The good news was that the hostility was innocent of political motivation, in both its genesis and expression. … The more intense the hostility, the more extreme the negative behavioral manifestations. It would thus be easy to observe, and the ignorance on which it was founded was regrettable but subject to correction. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 639

Categorization

• QUESTION: The claim of political innocence in hostility’s genesis is the thesis later critics rejected; worth tracing how Allport’s framework has been contested.