Anti-Muslim rhetoric has been mainstreamed across right-left ideological divides in the US
Evidence
Only Muslims, Coulter concluded, are liberally immune from collective responsibility. Lest one be tempted to consider this simply distasteful neocon opportunism to put another nail in the coffin of affirmative action, a week earlier Coulter had implored that “We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.” And so “we” have, twice now in just as many years and with decidedly less than definitive, if not decisively radicalizing, threatening results. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 191
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s Islamophobia-archive books (Islamophobia and the Novel, The New Crusades); Coulter’s collective-responsibility framing is a specimen of the zero-sum threat discourse the reader tracks across identity axes. — connects to: Anti-Muslim sentiment now spans the political spectrum from left to right — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 476; Official rhetoric framing Islam as ideology licensed anti-Muslim suspicion — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 864; Elite political rhetoric legitimizes anti-Muslim racism among constituents — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 827 (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- Anti-Muslim sentiment now spans the political spectrum from left to right
#corroborates(1.00) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 476 - Anti-Muslim racism takes reactionary, conservative, and liberal forms in the media
#corroborates(0.95) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 751 - Anti-Muslim sentiment spans opposing political groups, not just white conservatives
#corroborates(0.90) - Anti-Muslim racism operates even inside leftist and liberal anti-war movements
#corroborates(0.90) - Official rhetoric framing Islam as ideology licensed anti-Muslim suspicion
#expands(0.85) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 864 - Far-right and liberal anti-Muslim racism are dialectically coupled, not separate phenomena
#expands(0.85) - Islam-as-violence framing migrated from the right into mainstream liberal media
#corroborates(0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 346 - Islamophobic propaganda moves right-wing to mainstream to center
#corroborates(0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 698 - Elite political rhetoric legitimizes anti-Muslim racism among constituents
#expands(0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 827 - Anti-Muslim sentiment operates independently of local political ideology
#corroborates(0.80) - Islamophobic discourse moves from right-wing media to mainstream and shifts the center rightward
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