Harmony-and-gap framing denies systemic and institutional racism while recognizing the individual kind

Evidence

The European Commission’s preference for policies of ‘harmony’ and ‘reducing the gap’ (rather than anti-racism) presents various consequences. Whereas local, individual racism is recognized, any higher-order racisms are denied: racism that derives from national policy, institutional racism or systemic racism in society. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 767 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Sherene Razack writes that using hate as an analytic “discourages the thinking that is required to make sense of the high numbers of murdered Indigenous women, police shootings of Black people, and a range of historical atrocities such as the Holocaust, settler colonial massacres and violent dispossession.” Hate is framed as an individual problem that the state condemns and helps to resolve. It is also an emotion, psychologized as an individual pathology that can be combated like a disease, rather than sets of policies that are enacted for political interests. This approach regards Islamophobia as an individual problem of hate between people, not as a structural issue connected to state policies or media representations. — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 34 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Zero-sum framing of rivals enables depersonalization and rationalized harm; Exception-framing of U.S. racism minimizes minority plights even while representing them; Racelessness individualizes and personalizes what is actually structural racism (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Harmony-focused policy recognizes individual but denies institutional and systemic racism #corroborates (0.97) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 767
• Framing discrimination as individual hate obscures its structural and policy-based causes #corroborates (0.93) — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 34