Intolerance is a collective definition rather than a personality type
Evidence
The ill-intentioned extremist belongs to every society’s collection of social/ human types – it is not a universal psychological type. The ill-intentioned extremist (like the well-intentioned moderate) is, fi rst and foremost, a social actor who is not a passive recipient of ideology (Billig et al ., 1988 ). He is a social agent who engages with the prevailing ideology of the times. Intolerance is more a matter of collective defi nition than of personality (Tileag a6 , 2014 ). — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 315
Categorization
- XREF: Parallels the reader’s work on moral panics and social construction — intolerance as a socially defined collective stance, like sacrifice was a stabilizing social structure.