Harmony-focused policy recognizes individual but denies institutional and systemic racism
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
Categorization
- SEED: Angle for an essay: when ‘we’ and ‘harmony’ rhetoric structurally hides systemic racism, using the EU’s Roma policy as the case study of how procedural language launders moral exclusion.