Group scapegoating has recurred against Jews, Irish, Chinese, Roma, and LGBTQ people
Evidence
In the past, the targets have been Jews, the Irish, the Chinese, Roma (pejoratively referred to as “gypsies”), LGBTQ people…. The list goes on and on. Each time it has been expedient for a scapegoat or a nonspecific “threat” to be found, morally bankrupt politicians and race-baiters have been happy to do so. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 37
Categorization
- XREF: The scapegoat lineage connects to the historical library on manufactured threats and moral panics. — connects to: Racism against Europeans like the Irish predated color-based slavery; Blood-libel imagery linked Jews and Muslims eating Christian children. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 232; Anti-Muslim hate replicates anti-Semitic tropes and spreads between targeted groups — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 210 (+10 more)
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 37
Related
- The pandemic generated new Islamophobic scapegoating across countries (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Anti-Muslim hate replicates anti-Semitic tropes and spreads between targeted groups
#expands(0.75) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 210 - The Chinese Exclusion Act barred ethnic Chinese from citizenship and immigration
#exemplifies(0.70) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 745 - Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are parallel projects of majority exclusion
#expands(0.60) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 482 - The pandemic generated new Islamophobic scapegoating across countries
#exemplifies(0.60) - Colonial exclusion practices reinforced discrimination against immigrants, Jews, and women in France
#exemplifies(0.55) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 886 - Crisis-time scapegoating of religious out-groups masks political and economic causes
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