Participants’ terse anti-apartheid statements read as perfunctory correctness.

Evidence

Although most participants rejected apartheid outright in the same manner, they did so in the shortest possible way. There was little reflection on apartheid, its effects, or ongoing injustice related to the previous centuries of white rule. If one considers the vast difference in the amount and intensity of discursive work that participants do to reject apartheid, compared to the other constructions, it places the sincerity of this condemnation under question. It seems plausible that condemnation of apartheid is seen as the ‘right’ answer. — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 148

Categorization

• XREF: A methodological observation—assessing sincerity through relative discursive effort—that confirms the displacement question’s suspicion that the old ideology persists decoupled from formal power. — connects to: Displaced Afrikaner racism survives as a private in-group discourse. — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 130; Apartheid naturalized race rhetorically while shifting racial categories to serve white self-interest. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1589; People threatened by their group’s moral failures deny, relabel, and relativize the facts — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2084 (+1 more)

Related

• Displaced Afrikaner racism survives as a private in-group discourse. (similarity 0.86)
• Post-apartheid Afrikaners retained colonial racist ideologies despite rejecting apartheid’s morality. (similarity 0.81)
• Apartheid naturalized race rhetorically while shifting racial categories to serve white self-interest. (similarity 0.80)
• Shared religious language forced Afrikaners to respect their declared enemies (similarity 0.78)
• Race-focused research on apartheid is recent and still early-stage (similarity 0.78)
• Liberal apartheid scholarship treated racism chiefly as instrumental to Afrikaner nationalist power (similarity 0.78)
• Apartheid shaped not only what scholars studied but how they studied it (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• People threatened by their group’s moral failures deny, relabel, and relativize the facts #qualifies (0.75) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2084
• People publicly express more or less prejudice than they privately hold. #complicates (0.75)
• Apartheid naturalized race rhetorically while shifting racial categories to serve white self-interest. #expands (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1589