Prejudice has mutated into benevolent forms that sustain inequality

Evidence

Perhaps a victim of his time, he overlooked, as Rudman describes it, the “ordinariness of gender prejudice.” Only two pages of his book (pp. 33– 4) were dedicated to an analysis of sexism. Several chapters in our volume (Eagly & Diekman, Jackman, and Rudman) redress this oversight, drawing attention not only to the issue of sexism, but also to the inadequacy of defining prejudice solely as an antipathy. The consequence of this challenge to conceptions of the nature of prejudice is profound, suggesting that prejudice comes in qualitatively different forms, such as an ostensibly benevolent paternalism that disadvantages groups without apparent antipathy, that Allport and, for many years, the rest of the field, simply missed. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 139 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Benevolent assimilation further humiliates the person it claims to equalize — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 117; Brazil’s extreme inequality was so entrenched it went unmentionable in polite society — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 169; Affluent parents pursue segregation while sincerely believing they favor equality — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 981 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Prejudice takes benevolent paternalistic forms that disadvantage groups without antipathy #expands (0.95) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 139
• Prejudice can operate as benevolence, not only antipathy #expands (0.95)