Positive disclaimers about outgroups function as face-keeping, not genuine praise

Evidence

We see that these local moves instantiate within one sentence the overall (global) strategies of positive self-presentation (ingroup favoritism) and negative other-presentation (outgroup derogation). Note that some disclaimers are called “apparent” here, because the first, positive part primarily seems to function as a form of face-keeping and impression management: the rest of the text or fragment will focus on the negative characteristics of the Others, thus contradicting the first “positive” part. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1079

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies that ‘apparent’ disclaimers pair ingroup favoritism with outgroup derogation under a face-saving surface.
• XREF: Connects to vault-wide analysis of coded or euphemistic racial language (e.g., ‘I’m not racist, but…’ structures in discourse analysis of race). — connects to: Positive outgroup modeling alone fails because people dismiss attitude-contradicting evidence — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1994; Prejudiced people project repressed self-criticisms onto outgroups

Broader Connections

• Positive outgroup modeling alone fails because people dismiss attitude-contradicting evidence #corroborates (0.82) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1994
• Prejudiced people project repressed self-criticisms onto outgroups #corroborates (0.75)