Dehumanizing talk draws on shared cultural repertoires rather than individual antipathy
Evidence
Dehumanizing talk, and other manifestations of moral exclusion, are thus not a problem of antipathy or irrational individual psychology. As I have tried to show in this chapter, they are more a matter of drawing upon a collective, acceptable ‘affective canon’ that portrays and reproduces, subtly or explicitly, an ideology of Roma as ‘out of place’ and repulsive. Dehumanizing talk denies public recognition of someone’s dignity and social and moral worth. It removes Romanies from the domain of moral acceptability and prepares the ground for uprooting violence. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 700
Categorization
- XREF: Challenges the standard prejudice-as-individual-attitude framing; connects to moral exclusion literature (Opotow) and to the law-merchant work on institutions shaping behavior rather than individual psychology.
Related
- Roma are degraded and reminded of their degraded status (similarity 0.80)
- Anti-Roma prejudice resists explanation as individual psychological bias (similarity 0.80)
- Roma are framed not just as outsiders but as a distinct moral universe (similarity 0.79)
- Anti-Roma prejudice is far more complex than direct hostility (similarity 0.79)
- Prejudice research cannot be reduced to individual psychology (similarity 0.79)
- Prejudice is public harm to esteem, not merely private attitude (similarity 0.78)
- Even tolerant people express revulsion-themed hostility toward Roma (similarity 0.78)