Oppression functions as a self-fulfilling prophecy by forcing victims to embody propagandistic stereotypes.

Evidence

Such Judenräte behaviour reflected the general corruption of the victimized population. The oppression which elevated the rationality of self-preservation and systematically devalued moral considerations did succeed in dehumanizing its victims. It acted as a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts. The Jews were first proclaimed immoral and unscrupulous, selfish and greedy detractors of values, who used their ostensible cult of humanism as a convenient cover for naked self-interest; they were then forced into an inhuman condition where the definition promoted by propaganda could become true. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 417

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A dense, paradigm-level mechanism: how power first projects a defaming definition and then engineers material conditions that make the slander verifiable.
• XREF: Echoes Fanon’s colonial psychology and the broader ‘Othering’ mechanism the reader is building toward in the Islamophobia toolkit. — connects to: Oppressed people can internalize the oppressor’s hatred and turn it against themselves.; Formerly colonized peoples risk adopting the dominating discourse against themselves; Mass propaganda transforms ideology into a principle of self-definition for atomized individuals (+1 more)
• ADDENDUM: Directly parallels the mechanism in ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’: a group is first stigmatized, then conditions make the stigma observable.

Broader Connections

• Formerly colonized peoples risk adopting the dominating discourse against themselves #exemplifies (0.85)
• Oppressed people can internalize the oppressor’s hatred and turn it against themselves. #corroborates (0.82)
• Mass propaganda transforms ideology into a principle of self-definition for atomized individuals #expands (0.78)
• Racial identity arises as a negative product of oppression #corroborates (0.75)