Even tolerant people express revulsion-themed hostility toward Roma
Evidence
Yet, interestingly, they also feature in the discourses of sympathetic and seemingly tolerant people. The idea of extending the values that the majority group takes for granted (freedom of movement, freedom of settlement, etc.) to Romanies can lead to marked discomfort, uneasiness and anxiety, even for individuals, groups or communities that profess tolerance as a matter of course. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 619
Related
- Anti-Roma prejudice is far more complex than direct hostility (similarity 0.86)
- Roma are degraded and reminded of their degraded status (similarity 0.84)
- Minority rejection is reframed as majority disgust through rhetoric (similarity 0.82)
- Well-intentioned citizens reproduce extremist tropes against Roma without awareness (similarity 0.81)
- Prejudices against Roma are among the last socially acceptable prejudices (similarity 0.81)
- Roma are punished for embodying values central to the European ideal (similarity 0.81)
- Roma are framed not just as outsiders but as a distinct moral universe (similarity 0.80)
- European freedom of movement is only conditionally extended to Roma (similarity 0.80)
- Anti-Roma prejudice resists explanation as individual psychological bias (similarity 0.79)
- Most racism is lukewarm and ambivalent rather than violently hateful (similarity 0.79)
- Racism against Romani people is the last acceptable prejudice in Europe (similarity 0.79)
- Politicians frame Roma as lacking modern self-expression values. (similarity 0.79)
- Prejudices are actively accomplished and sustained rather than passively held. (similarity 0.79)
- Romani people are constantly reminded of their degraded status (similarity 0.79)
- Roma are perceived as a partial society threatening democratic totality (similarity 0.79)