Fear of being called racist suppresses open talk about population growth and immigration

Evidence

To complicate matters further, in the political realm, immigration is an emotionally charged issue that evokes deeply ingrained prejudices against certain ethnicities and occupational strata, favoritism toward others, and indignation over illegal immigrants. These conflicting forces have spawned political correctness on both the Right and the Left. Some people exploit this contentious issue for political purposes, but most do not want to talk about immigration in terms of population growth for fear of being branded racist. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2587

Categorization

• XREF: The suppression mechanism here parallels the vault’s authoritarianism claims about how public discourse gets channeled: real demographic concerns go unspoken, leaving prejudice unchallenged.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2587