Ideologically rationalized bigotry historically recurs against successive target groups

Evidence

The rationalizing of bigotry is not new. Discrimination has always been subject to ideological and intellectual justification. Whether this is directed against women, black people, Jewish people or LGBT communities, history shows that it’s always possible to rationalize racism and couch bigotry in ‘acceptable’ arguments; this form of hatred is the most dangerous. Muslims are the latest in a long line caught in the crossfire of these so-called rational arguments. Islamophobia is Britain’s latest bigotry blind spot. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 30

Categorization

• XREF: Positions Islamophobia within a historical pattern of racisms — resonates with the reader’s understanding of Runnymede framing Islamophobia as one racism among others, aligning it with anti-black and anti-Jewish racism rather than sui generis anti-Muslim animus. — connects to: Defamed groups perpetually regenerate pariah and parvenu personality types — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 220; Bigotry functions in US history as governance to control diversity and build unity — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 300; Reducing Islamophobia to private bigotry ignores state-enforced discrimination — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 122 (+12 more)

Related

• Bigotry functions in US history as governance to control diversity and build unity (similarity 0.82)
• Normalization of anti-Muslim ideas produces a morally self-justifying rationalism (similarity 0.82)
• Generalizing from a few examples to 1.5 billion Muslims is the core of bigotry (similarity 0.82)
• Muslims were told anti-Muslim racism cannot exist because Muslims are not a race (similarity 0.81)
• Separating Islamophobia as ideology from racism undermines anti-racist struggle (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia fixates a reified Muslim type despite race’s dynamic nature. (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia is an ideology justifying racism, not a Hegelian dialectic. (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia operates as a racial formation, not merely religious prejudice (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia remains legitimate while racism has become illegitimate (similarity 0.80)
• Respectable intellectual argument is a particularly dangerous vehicle for Islamophobia (similarity 0.80)
• Anti-racist movements often fail to see anti-Muslim bigotry as racism (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobia is best understood and countered as a form of anti-Muslim racism. (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-Muslim animus unites groups that were themselves former racist targets (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobia is best understood as context-dependent plural phenomena (similarity 0.79)
• Criticism of religious ideas should never be restricted as Islamophobic (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Anti-Muslim hate replicates anti-Semitic tropes and spreads between targeted groups #exemplifies (0.90) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 210
• Bigotry functions in US history as governance to control diversity and build unity #exemplifies (0.82) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 300
• Reducing Islamophobia to private bigotry ignores state-enforced discrimination #complicates (0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 122
• Normalization of anti-Muslim ideas produces a morally self-justifying rationalism #expands (0.75) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 457
• Race-thinking preceded and differs from racism as a full ideology #qualifies (0.72)