Popular Islamophobia is voiced by ordinary citizens rewarding public abuse
Evidence
A passer-by stops to offer congratulations: ” ‘Good on you,’ a middle-aged man in a canary yellow shirt said in slightly trembling but loud voice. ‘They won’t integrate, you know’ ” (93). — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 368
Categorization
- XREF: The ‘won’t integrate’ accusation finds echoes in the immigrant-non-integration anxieties threaded through The Reluctant Fundamentalist and The Namesake. — connects to: Private Islamophobia comprises vigilante violence by ordinary people against Muslims — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 340; Ordinary citizens voice unexamined Islamophobic assumptions unprompted — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 368; Islamophobia is a state-driven dialectic shaping popular attitudes toward Muslims — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1807 (+4 more)
- SEED: Public-congratulation scenes as a comic-social index of where a society stands on vigilantism.
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Private Islamophobia comprises vigilante violence by ordinary people against Muslims — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 340; Ordinary citizens voice unexamined Islamophobic assumptions unprompted — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 368; Islamophobia is a state-driven dialectic shaping popular attitudes toward Muslims — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1807 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Islamophobia’s effects are mostly everyday meaning-making, not overt violence
#complicates(0.76) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 924 - Islamophobia is a state-driven dialectic shaping popular attitudes toward Muslims
#complicates(0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1807 - Islamophobia serves structural rewards for media and political elites, not just bigots
#complicates(0.74) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 35