Extreme prejudice needs a framework of reasonableness to be persuasive
Evidence
His tone is not of irritated distance but a tone of action. Bayer is the man of action that demands urgent and decisive action against the Roma. He tries to appeal to the sensibilities of his compatriots, to those who feel dispossessed or let down by the European project. Bayer’s diatribe mingles extreme anti-Roma sentiment with anti-Europeanism. One does not talk about the Roma in a vacuum, but there is always a context (local, national, cross-national), the backdrop against which the Roma are said to be worthy or, like in this case, unworthy of coexistence. The point of his rhetoric is to make a case for reasonable discrimination. Hostile discourse and actions need a framework of reasonableness. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 317
Categorization
- SEED: Article angle: how ‘reasonable discrimination’ gets rhetorically constructed across national contexts — a close-reading method for hate discourse.
Related
- Anti-Roma prejudice is far more complex than direct hostility (similarity 0.80)
- Racism against Romani people is the last acceptable prejudice in Europe (similarity 0.79)