Impersonal prejudice claims recruit universal reasonable audience agreement

Evidence

Andrei describes revulsion as something pervasive and general, but not something necessarily associated with the feelings, wishes and motives of a particular individual. Rhetorically, Andrei addresses a universal, reasonable audience to which the idea, the notion, that Romany ‘behaviour’ is disgusting or repulsive is non-controversial. This is a claim for reasonableness based on the implicit idea that everyone would feel the same (that is, disgusted) about Romanies and their behaviour. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 543

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the rhetorical strategy of universalizing moral stances found in allport-style studies of ‘the reasonable person’ as an authority move.