Prejudice reduction efforts can suppress disadvantaged groups’ activism

Evidence

In still others, with an irony that is increasingly evidenced by research, prejudice reduction may actually become part of the problem that it is designed to solve, diminishing the extent to which members of historically disadvantaged groups acknowledge and challenge broader structures of social injustice. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 120

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A genuinely paradigm-questioning result: the well-intentioned project of reducing prejudice can undercut the very groups it aims to help by defusing their motivation to challenge structural injustice.
• QUESTION: Which specific studies document this ‘irony’? Worth chasing the Dixon and colleagues literature for the mechanism.
• XREF: connects to: Antiabortion activism increases rather than decreases abortion rates — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 636

Related

• Antiabortion activism increases rather than decreases abortion rates (similarity 0.83)
• Prejudice-reduction programs can target structural rather than only individual-level change (similarity 0.78)