Personal biographical grievance can directly produce ideological hatred

Evidence

The book chronicles not only Chesler’s move from “left feminism” to the defense of “right feminism,” including support of war and individualistic rights claims rather than critique of patriarchy and imperialism, but in it, she also explains some of her hatred for Muslims and Islam as produced by her 1960s’ experience of marrying an Afghan Muslim man and following him to Afghanistan where she lived for several years. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 556

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s project question about where the problem relocates to the fearer — here the fearer’s biography is the root cause. — connects to: A sense of personal grievance can turn a quiet gentleman into a political fighter — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 818