Politicians invoke a universal moral order to portray minority conduct as inherently problematic.

Evidence

The Slovakian Roma’s ‘way of being’ is perceived as a problem. ‘We all know that’ is an explicit reference to a normative moral order, which generates its inadaptable, uncivilized antithesis. This normative moral order is not just the national moral order, but a universal moral order. The ‘we’ in ‘we all know that’ indexes the universal rationality and reasonableness of right-thinking and law-abiding citizens. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 579

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how does the claim to ‘universality’ in ‘we all know’ foreclose dissent compared to merely national normative appeals?