Covert intellectual bigotry is more dangerous than overt Islamophobia
Evidence
In 2011, I said that Islamophobia had passed the dinner-table test. I was speaking about those who display their bigotry overtly, but also those who do so more subtly in the most respectable of settings – middle-class dinner tables. It is this more covert form of Islamophobia, couched in intellectual arguments and espoused by thinktanks, commentators and even politicians, that I have spent the last decade trying to reason with. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 29
Categorization
- CANDY: ‘Passed the dinner-table test’ is a memorable, tweetable phrase.
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s knowledge of respectability politics and how ‘acceptable’ framing of bigotry functions — echoes literature on microaggressions and covert racism. — connects to: Respectable intellectual argument is a particularly dangerous vehicle for Islamophobia — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 34; Generalizing from a few examples to 1.5 billion Muslims is the core of bigotry; the MOC “Making the Muslim Enemy: How Islamophobia Is Manufactured, Defined, and Contested”