Prejudices are actively accomplished and sustained rather than passively held.
Evidence
The question that should preoccupy more social psychologists of racism is not only why the Roma are Europe’s new scapegoats, but also what is the nature of the prejudices against them, how do these prejudices come to life, how are they accomplished, and sustained over time, and what are their social, ideological, moral and material consequences? — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 94
Related
- Prejudice is formed and reproduced socially, not through internal psychological processes. (similarity 0.87)
- Prejudice is public harm to esteem, not merely private attitude (similarity 0.84)
- Anti-Roma prejudice resists explanation as individual psychological bias (similarity 0.84)
- Roma are degraded and reminded of their degraded status (similarity 0.83)
- Anti-Roma prejudice is far more complex than direct hostility (similarity 0.83)
- Prejudices against Roma are among the last socially acceptable prejudices (similarity 0.82)
- Progressively-framed European institutions can still reproduce the racism they disavow. (similarity 0.81)
- Prejudice research cannot be reduced to individual psychology (similarity 0.81)
- Racism against Romani people is the last acceptable prejudice in Europe (similarity 0.81)
- Prejudice is an interpretive concept lacking fixed definition (similarity 0.80)
- Roma persecution predates and underpins modern racism as a historical phenomenon (similarity 0.80)
- Prejudices arising from denying moral worth need societal analysis (similarity 0.79)
- Understanding stubborn prejudice requires turning to sociology, history, and anthropology (similarity 0.79)
- Prejudice is explained by societal characteristics, not only individual traits (similarity 0.79)
- Even tolerant people express revulsion-themed hostility toward Roma (similarity 0.79)