For white supremacists in-group love directly drives out-group hate

Evidence

The self-proclaimed goal of many white supremacist organizations is to promote pride in the white race. Their leaders portray the white pride movement as akin to other social movements that encourage attachment to one’s in-group. To the contrary, the current research suggests that in-group bias for white supremacists is driven by out-group negativity. Out-group hate, not in-group love, appears to be the primary motive among these individuals. Perhaps it is these strong feelings of out-group negativity that promote the intergroup conflict and violence that emerges among the more extreme members of such groups. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1124

The self-proclaimed goal of many white supremacist organizations is to promote pride in the white race. Their leaders portray the white pride movement as akin to other social movements that encourage attachment to one’s in-group. To the contrary, the current research suggests that in-group bias for white supremacists is driven by out-group negativity. Out-group hate, not in-group love, appears to be the primary motive among these individuals. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1124

Categorization

• SEED: An article angle: the rhetorical framing of ‘white pride’ as benign in-group attachment versus the empirical finding that it is primarily out-group negativity — how movements disguise hate as love of one’s own.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s prior work on how groups frame their motives; parallels the rhetoric-vs-mechanism distinction used in the diamond trade chapters and in social capital theory.
• QUESTION: If white supremacy runs on outgroup hate rather than ingroup love, does that imply interventions targeting pride are mismatched? Could this generalize to islamophobic or antisemitic movements?
• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1124