Discriminatory hospitality produces conformism rather than rebellion among the admitted elite

Evidence

It is only natural that this social situation, though it made rebels out of the first educated Jews, would in the long run produce a specific kind of conformism rather than an effective tradition of rebellion. Conforming to a society which discriminated against “ordinary” Jews and in which, at the same time, it was generally easier for an educated Jew to be admitted to fashionable circles than for a non-Jew of similar condition, Jews had to differentiate themselves clearly from the “Jew in general,” and just as clearly to indicate that they were Jews; under no circumstances were they allowed simply to disappear among their neighbors. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 218

Categorization

• XREF: The dynamic of being admitted precisely as an exception — while being forced to mark oneself as different — carries directly into how ‘acceptable’ Muslims are treated under liberal tolerance regimes in the Islamophobia literature.