Free speech defenses of racist cartoons mask ‘entitlement racism’

Evidence

Shortly before this, J-P had published a series of editorials and op-eds that were anti-immigrant and that portrayed Islam as a dangerous and belligerent religion. The cartoons therefore didn’t come out of nowhere. Anthropologist Peter Hervik has argued that the logic of J-P’s cultural editor derives from what is called “entitlement racism,” which involves “the right to offend and to humiliate” in the name of liberal principles. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 358

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Narrowly relevant to my published article on moral panics over dress: the ‘right to offend and humiliate under liberal principle’ mechanism parallels how sumptuary panic is defended as freedom — a divergence-of-regime test for whether the mechanism is capitalist-specific.
• ADDENDUM: Directly relevant to the dress-panics article: the cartoon defense shows the same dynamic the essay tracks for modesty panic — offensive display justified by a higher liberal principle to humiliate a targeted group.
• DEFINE: Introduces and defines Hervik’s term ‘entitlement racism,’ a useful precise concept.

Related

• Free-speech defenses of the cartoons masked prior anti-immigrant editorializing. (similarity 0.92)
• Free speech framing converts anti-Muslim cartoon racism into a covert liberal form (similarity 0.82)
• Objecting to racist speech got reframed as cowardice lacking character. (similarity 0.81)
• Islam-as-violence framing migrated from the right into mainstream liberal media (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Liberal free-speech defenses can function as entitlement racism #exemplifies (0.95)