Prejudice operates most powerfully through reasoning sequences, not single sentences.

Evidence

However repulsive the quoted sentence may sound, “it is importantly less objectionable than the sequence of sentences within which it is deployed.” The sequence, Ricks points out, “is a more insidious incitement to prejudice than any single sentence.” Prejudice is most powerfully itself when expressed in “plausible processes of corrupted reasoning, by the disguising of a non-sequitur” (Ricks, 1988:41). Indeed, it is only when anti-Jewish sentiments are riveted in an enticing vision of a total, harmonious design, which the Jews allegedly disturb and prevent from implementation, that old Judeophobia turns - at least potentially - into modern genocide. It is only the admixing of resentment of “the other” to the gardener’s self-confidence that is truly explosive. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 415

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to vault-wide CRT material on how racism embeds in plausible institutional logics rather than overt slurs — parallels Omi & Winant on racial projects as framed by broader social structures.
• DEFINE: Defines a mechanism by which Judeophobia escalates to genocide: attachment to a total harmonious design that the hated group allegedly obstructs.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 415