Ideology defines the self by stigmatising the Other

Evidence

As Clarke puts it, through the perpetuation and provision of meaning, ideology ‘creates a form of order, who we are, or perhaps more precisely who we are not, by the stigmatisation, marginalisation and intolerance associated with this’. Symbolic forms and the meaning made known through them create and sustain the relationships of power and interaction between the ingroup and outgroup: the self and the Other. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 833

Categorization

• XREF: The self/Other, ingroup/outgroup mechanism echoes Said’s orientalism framing and the Runnymede closed-views binary. — connects to: Depicting the Other’s politics as sexualized madness marks them as an inferior race; Identity is constructed through opposition to a continuously reinterpreted other; Contemporary national self-definition debates operate through the othering process (+31 more)

Related

• Contemporary national self-definition debates operate through the othering process (similarity 0.87)
• Mass propaganda transforms ideology into a principle of self-definition for atomized individuals (similarity 0.83)
• Assimilationism operates as solipsistic narcissism that cannot recognize otherness (similarity 0.82)
• Ideology operates through belief about what others believe (similarity 0.81)
• Ideology is best conceived as systems of signifiers shaping social action. (similarity 0.80)
• Ideology functions as signification that attains societal validity and justification (similarity 0.80)
• The meaning stereotyping produces is best understood as ideological (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Identity is constituted through exclusion of what it is not #corroborates (0.90)
• Ubuntu personhood defines the self only through communal relation #contradicts (0.85) — , The Rod and the Child, 4252
• Europeans project their repressed evil onto the racialized Other #exemplifies (0.85)
• Global events normalized Islamophobic discourse and made Muslims the ultimate Other #exemplifies (0.85) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 255
• Ideology represents imaginary relations to real conditions of existence #expands (0.80)
• Islamophobic ideology self-perpetuates as natural and normative #exemplifies (0.80) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 836
• Totalitarian ideology coerces through the fear of abandoning a first premise #exemplifies (0.80)
• Antillean identity is contingent entirely on the white Other #exemplifies (0.80)
• The Antillean’s sense of self is entirely contingent on the Other’s judgment. #exemplifies (0.80)
• Monotheistic sacred narratives ground colonial sovereignty and identity against the Other. #exemplifies (0.80) — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 99
• Technological rule substitutes causality for choice and effaces the Other #exemplifies (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 623
• Sartre’s Other-concept fails for black consciousness because the white man is also master. #qualifies (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 965
• Moral behaviour springs from the Other’s powerless demand, not from sanctions #complicates (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 611
• Perceptions of the Other are always shaped by available cultural tools #expands (0.75) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 351
• Antillean action seeks the Other’s corroboration rather than genuine communication #exemplifies (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 756