Modern racism against Muslims persists through more polite, euphemistic policy language

Evidence

When it comes to modern equivalents, Professor Lee minces no words. She once told National Public Radio (NPR) that today’s equivalent of the Chinese Exclusion Act was Donald Trump’s well-known Muslim Travel Ban. “The fact that we don’t explicitly name Muslims [in Trump’s executive order] is more of a reflection of how our racial sensibilities have changed over the past 135 years, in terms of being more polite in our racism,” she told NPR on the 135th anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 749

Categorization

• XREF: Directly extends Beydoun’s New Crusades thesis on how Islamophobic policy is coded in neutral language; also resonates with the reader’s core theme that the US maintains exclusionary practice via polite formalism. — connects to: Questioning multiculturalism opened a path from policy critique to blaming Muslims — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 360; Anti-Muslim rhetoric was founded in the Middle Ages and persists into today; Islamophobic campaign rhetoric is traded for votes and converted into policy — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 57 (+20 more)
• SEED: A cross-century comparison piece: how the language of exclusionary policy has gone from explicitly racial to ‘polite racism,’ using 1882 and 2017 as the two poles.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 749

Broader Connections

• Liberal Islamophobia is racist and imperialist despite its gentler rhetoric #corroborates (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 430
• Islamophobia remains socially acceptable while other bigotries bring reprimand #corroborates (0.70)
• Islamophobia remains more socially acceptable than other Western prejudices #corroborates (0.70) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 710
• Anti-Muslim racism remains entrenched despite Muslim inclusion in imperial systems #complicates (0.60)
• Islamophobia is transmitted through state-polity dialogue via law and rhetoric #expands (0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 83
• Structural Islamophobia and structural racism share embedded institutional stereotypes #expands (0.50) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 130
• Islamophobia is increasingly theorized as a form of racism rather than mere religious prejudice #corroborates (0.40)