Political fear is a collective, deeply held fear that guides policy.
Evidence
White fear is a kind of political fear. Political fear (like the current fear of Muslims) reaches beyond fright or anxiety experienced by individuals. It’s bigger than any one person. It is a deeply felt, collectively held fear shared by people who believe, together, that some harm threatens them and their way of life. That apprehension, based in how we generally live our lives and sometimes in individual experience, guides political choices and policy. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 199
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Glaude defines ‘political fear’ as distinct from individual fright — a collective, shared apprehension that shapes policy choices.
Related
- Collectively held political fears guide policy choices beyond individual experience (similarity 0.97)
- Political fear generalizes intimate fears into societal threats and loops back. (similarity 0.84)
- White fear of black anger distorts and constrains black political behavior (similarity 0.81)
- White fear is anticipatory and dissociated from actual threat of harm (similarity 0.81)
- White fear reflects moral anxiety about racial sins, not just perceived black danger. (similarity 0.80)
- White fear of blacks stems from feared divine or black revenge (similarity 0.80)
- White fear frames black people as threats to society’s overall well-being (similarity 0.79)
- White fear is anticipatory and operates without any actual threat of harm. (similarity 0.79)
- White fear functions as a constant, gravity-like force in American life. (similarity 0.78)