Perceived successful minorities face genocide more than disadvantaged ones

Evidence

The ideological model not only helps to illuminate why the Jews were tar­ geted by the Nazis but also should help predict which groups are similarly at risk in countries currently experiencing social and economic problems. The analysis presented here suggests that minority groups perceived to be socio­ economically successful or culturally influential (i.e., targets of envious preju­ dice) are more likely to be targets of genocidal intent than are disadvantaged groups, which (though they may also be blamed for social problems, be tar­ gets of discriminatory policies, and even sometimes be victims of genocide) are less likely to be seen as capable of intentionally causing grievous economic and social harm. The ideological scapegoating pattern fits the genocidal attack of the Turks against the Armenians (who were stereotyped in strik­ ingly similar ways to the Jews), the more recent Rwandan genocide (in which Hutu perpetrators targeted the Tutsis, a successful minority that had been favored by European colonizers and were therefore targets of resentment), anti-Chinese violence in Indonesia (where the Chinese minority is economi­ cally powerful), and Serbian aggression in Bosnia and Kosovo (as Serbian ide­ ology casts the Serbs as historic victims of the Muslims). — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 848

Categorization

• XREF: Directly bridges the reader’s envied-outgroup (high-competence/low-warmth) mechanism to the powerful-minority scapegoating literature named in the reading goal. — connects to: Genocide targets economically successful middleman minorities across centuries — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1594; Perceived power, not weakness, makes minorities likeliest to be scapegoated — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 1595; Successful competing minorities, not weak out-groups, become primary scapegoats — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1585
• SEED: Article angle: a predictive typology of which minorities become genocidal targets, using Armenia/Rwanda/Indonesia/Bosnia as cases.
• DEEPTHINKING: Inverts the intuitive model that the weakest are the most targeted, reframing genocidal selection around perceived capacity to harm.

Broader Connections

• Genocide targets economically successful middleman minorities across centuries #corroborates (0.95) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1594
• Successful competing minorities, not weak out-groups, become primary scapegoats #corroborates (0.95) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1585
• Perceived power, not weakness, makes minorities likeliest to be scapegoated #corroborates (0.90) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1595