Hate toward outgroups can reflect self-hatred projected outward.

Evidence

A core assumption is that sometimes what one hates about other groups of people is related to the things that one hates about oneself. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2341

Categorization

• DEFINE: The essence of projection as Allport understood it — a compact, quotable definition.
• XREF: connects to: Hate is the free choice to abolish the Other rather than unite with it. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1011; Total racial hatred is self-destructive because it erases too much of one’s own humanity — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 798; Hatred of welfare claimants actually expresses hatred of one’s own work. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1708