Newly empowered groups often secure status by denigrating those they just left.

Evidence

Moves upwards in human groups are often accompanied by the vociferous insistence that those new recruits to the privileged class are utterly dissociated from the despised group from which they have emerged—hence the phenomenon of lower middleclass respectability, the officer risen from the ranks, and the recently assimilated colonised (Memmi 1965:16). Arguments for women’s freedom cannot convincingly be based on a similar putdown of the non-human world. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 112

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘recently assimilated colonised’ parallel connects directly to settler-colonial critiques across the polyad and to Memmi’s work. — connects to: Prejudice surfaces when groups seek roles they have not previously held — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 206; Marginal-status people tend to denigrate those below them when opportunity ideology is strong. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2267

Broader Connections

• Marginal-status people tend to denigrate those below them when opportunity ideology is strong. #corroborates (0.92) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2267
• Prejudice surfaces when groups seek roles they have not previously held #expands (0.85) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 206