Collective hypocrisy frames problems to justify oppressive solutions

Evidence

In dealing with this subject, the commonest curse is to be the dupe in good faith of a collective hypocrisy that cleverly misrepresents problems, the better to legitimize the hateful solutions provided for them. — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 11

Categorization

• XREF: This anticipates Gramsci’s hegemony and ideological framing — how misrepresentation of problems legitimizes policy. The same mechanism later recurs in Islamophobia discourse. — connects to: Prevent policy is discriminatory, disproportionate, and counterproductive — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 124; Ideologically rationalized bigotry historically recurs against successive target groups — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 30; Framing discrimination as individual hate obscures its structural and policy-based causes — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 34 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Collective responsibility replicated the Nazis’ Oradour justification principle #exemplifies (0.88)
• Normalization of anti-Muslim ideas produces a morally self-justifying rationalism #corroborates (0.85) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 457
• Rationalized social organization structurally enables cruelty by mediating responsibility #corroborates (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 441
• Ideologically rationalized bigotry historically recurs against successive target groups #exemplifies (0.82) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 30
• Islamophobic ideology self-perpetuates as natural and normative #corroborates (0.82) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 836
• Framing discrimination as individual hate obscures its structural and policy-based causes #expands (0.78) — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 34
• Ideologies act on people structurally through a process that escapes them #expands (0.75)
• Moral resistance is personal while immorality requires social production #complicates (0.72) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 476
• Treating antisemitism and Islamophobia as analogous masks asymmetric power relations. #complicates (0.70) — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 23