Denouncing right-wing extremism can license the expression of commonplace prejudice.
Evidence
Placing a safe moral distance between the self and right-wing politics and policies, building a self-assured distance between fair-mindedness and reasonableness on the one hand and bigotry on the other hand, can, nonetheless, open the way for the expression of both commonplace, and extreme, morally exclusionary prejudices. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 225
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to moral-licensing effects in social psychology and the earlier passage on anti-racist credentials being spent as permission for exclusion. — connects to: Anti-communism replaced anti-Semitism as America’s acceptable prejudice outlet. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1812; Anti-Semites merely voice a society whose official norms legitimize prejudice — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1791; Liberal anti-racist rhetoric licenses and amplifies far-right conspiracy theories. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 721