Islamophobia remains legitimate while racism has become illegitimate

Evidence

Legitimation is how ideological content becomes reasonably perceived to be legitimate and justified through sustaining meaning that ensures that certain individuals, groups or communities remain the Other or outgroup. … In doing so, such perceptions acquire a sense of natural or normative order or function, seen beforehand in the way ideology ‘makes sense’ of the world. … Such a process can also naturally hinder or restrict the shifting of ideas and understandings about issues and subjects, so unlike racist ideologies that have over the past three decades shifted towards a societal position of intolerance and unacceptability, being seen to be illegitimate and unjustified, so the same has failed to occur regarding Islamophobia. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 846

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Mainstream race-equality groups narrowed Islamophobia to mere religious discrimination — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 748; Racism has empirical grounding that Islamophobia still lacks — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 789; Islamophobia remains socially acceptable while other bigotries bring reprimand (+4 more)

Related

• Islamophobia remains more socially acceptable than other Western prejudices (similarity 0.87)
• Islamophobia is an ideology sustaining negative meaning about Muslims. (similarity 0.84)
• Islamophobia is best understood as an ideology akin to racism (similarity 0.84)
• Islamophobia remains Europe’s one tolerated and even encouraged racist ideology (similarity 0.84)
• Islamophobia centers on recognition of Muslim-ness and its ideological meaning (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobia remains socially acceptable while other bigotries bring reprimand (similarity 0.83)
• Mainstream race-equality groups narrowed Islamophobia to mere religious discrimination (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobia operates as a racial formation, not merely religious prejudice (similarity 0.83)
• Normalization of anti-Muslim ideas produces a morally self-justifying rationalism (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobia is an ideology, not a set of actions or practices (similarity 0.82)
• Racism has empirical grounding that Islamophobia still lacks (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia is an ideological construct with real consequences, not mere discourse (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia is rarely analyzed through the lens of race and racism. (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia is an ideology justifying racism, not a Hegelian dialectic. (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia requires an acknowledged Muslim or Islamic element to be identified. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Islamophobia remains more socially acceptable than other Western prejudices #corroborates (0.95) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 710
• Islamophobia remains socially acceptable while other bigotries bring reprimand #corroborates (0.92)
• Islamophobia is increasingly theorized as a form of racism rather than mere religious prejudice #complicates (0.80)
• Islamophobia has become the dominant prejudice in Western societies #qualifies (0.72) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 15