Prejudicial ideologies arise after exploitation, to justify it, not before

Evidence

The system-justification view is consistent with historical evidence indicating that full-fledged prejudicial ideologies tend to come after, not before, institutionalized forms of tyranny and exploitation. For example, anti-Semitism as a racial ideology first arose in the eleventh century to justify the Medieval Crusades, and virulent forms of anti-Black prejudice were not developed until the fifteenth century to justify the European enslavement of Africans (Frederickson, 2002). System-justifying forms of stereotyping and prejudice render cultural practices and institutions legitimate, rational, and sometimes even necessary and noble. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1398

The system-justification view is consistent with historical evidence indicating that full-fledged prejudicial ideologies tend to come after, not before, institutionalized forms of tyranny and exploitation. For example, anti-Semitism as a racial ideology first arose in the eleventh century to justify the Medieval Crusades, and virulent forms of anti-Black prejudice were not developed until the fifteenth century to justify the European enslavement of Africans (Frederickson, 2002). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1398

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s standing interest in causal claims and to ‘On Sacrifice’ article on how ideology legitimizes stratified institutions. — connects to: Genocidal ideology is constructed after the plunder motive, not before it. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 127
• ADDENDUM: Parallel to the ‘On Sacrifice’ thesis that ritual ideologies legitimize and stabilize stratified societies after the fact.
• SEED: Article angle: prejudice as retrospective justification rather than cause — ‘the ideology comes after the atrocity,’ with implications for how we read contemporary moral panics.
• QUESTION: Frederickson 2002 gives datable origins for anti-Semitic and anti-Black racial ideology — worth chasing the primary source for precise dates and region-specific emergence.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1398