Defamed groups perpetually regenerate pariah and parvenu personality types

Evidence

As long as defamed peoples and classes exist, parvenuand pariah-qualities will be produced anew by each generation with incomparable monotony, in Jewish society and everywhere else. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 220

Categorization

  • XREF: A general mechanism claim — defamation itself generates the stereotypes that justify it — directly reusable in the Islamophobia field’s analysis of how anti-Muslim stigma produces the very characteristics it denounces. — connects to: Ideologically rationalized bigotry historically recurs against successive target groups — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 30
  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 220

Broader Connections