Demographic anxiety drives demagogues to scapegoat racial minorities
Evidence
The indefinite future of whiteness has, in the United States and beyond, unleashed a violent underbelly of rage within the corridors of political power and on the street. This fragility, or “white anxiety,” as some have called it, is why demagogues engage in fearmongering, stirring up anxiety about Mexican “illegals,” Asian immigrants who take “American jobs,” Muslims who are branded as terrorists, and Black men and women exercising their First Amendment rights. Its power, once unclothed of its bluster and stripped down to its loins, is nothing but fear. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1139
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Directly connects Islamophobia to other racial scapegoatings, supporting the reader’s synthesis of Islamophobia as one node in a coordinated global racial condition.
Related
- White anxiety drives demogogic scapegoating across US politics. (similarity 0.92)
- White demographic anxiety causally preceded the rise of white nationalism (similarity 0.79)
- Islamophobia against women ties into racism and fear of nonwhite minorities (similarity 0.78)
- Racial panic narratives shape immigration illegality and state targeting (similarity 0.78)
- Demographic projections of a majority-minority America fueled populist backlash politics (similarity 0.78)