Progressively-framed European institutions can still reproduce the racism they disavow.
Evidence
European policy for the Roma frames its progressive actions in a post-racism era. Although racism still persists, it is presented as a thing of the past; a progressive, globalized Europe does not protect racism and racists. Yet, infringements of core European values and principles, like freedom of movement or settlement, are not always perceived as racist. European elites can freely castigate new member countries for failing to integrate their Roma populations, whilst at the same time reproducing explicitly an ideology of Roma as ‘out of place’. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 754
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s chapter on moral exclusion — the amnesia about racism being reproduced despite progressive self-image. — connects to: Sympathetic multicultural TV portrayals can still legitimate racist counterterrorism policies.
Related
- European freedom of movement is only conditionally extended to Roma (similarity 0.82)
- Racism against Romani people is the last acceptable prejudice in Europe (similarity 0.82)
- Roma are punished for embodying values central to the European ideal (similarity 0.81)
- Prejudices are actively accomplished and sustained rather than passively held. (similarity 0.81)
- Prejudice is formed and reproduced socially, not through internal psychological processes. (similarity 0.81)
- Europe denies its racism by recasting racial exclusion as class cultural or religious problems (similarity 0.81)
- Harmony-focused policy recognizes individual but denies institutional and systemic racism (similarity 0.80)
- Racism’s expressions across Europe resist unified characterization (similarity 0.80)
- Europe has repeatedly redefined its identity against successive non-white and non-Christian others. (similarity 0.80)
- European framing of racism as Nazi sin blocks confronting everyday racist behavior (similarity 0.79)
- Roma are degraded and reminded of their degraded status (similarity 0.79)
- Europe’s tolerance image coexists with internally enacted exclusionary policies (similarity 0.79)
- EU expansion exposed liberal Europeans’ failure to uphold equal-treatment values (similarity 0.79)
- Racism increased in Europe after World War II’s delegitimization of it. (similarity 0.78)
- Roma persecution predates and underpins modern racism as a historical phenomenon (similarity 0.78)