Believing groups are entitative makes groups morally responsible for events, not individuals.

Evidence

From a collec­ tive perspective, these groups are entitative, that is, understood as entities with indivisible meaning as units (Hamilton & Sherman, 1996), whereas individuals are components of groups, in some ways interchangeable (Brewer & Miller, 1996). This belief in the entitativity of groups means that groups are viewed as causing events and as being responsible for the actions of group members (Morris, 1998), while individual actors are less likely to be viewed as causing outcomes (Morris & Peng, 1994). — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 1028

Categorization

• DEFINE: Precisely defines entitativity as indivisible group meaning, the mechanism by which targeting shifts from individuals to whole categories.
• XREF: Directly relevant to Glick’s argument: entitative perception licenses blaming an entire outgroup, not just its members.