Racial branding makes a group’s guiltless political extinction more likely

Evidence

Such experiences increased in-group solidarity and identification with their religious identity. Brown (2001) observes that as Muslim identities have been constructed as ‘other’ to western identities, an attempt to distort Muslim identities, or to suppress the symbols of these identities, often has the opposite effect; it strengthens these identities. — Irene Zempi and Imran Awan, Islamophobia, 255 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Symbolic threat frames adoption of outgroup culture as losing racial identity; Racial democracy rhetoric suppresses black political organizing by branding it as reverse racism; Suppressing a stigmatised group’s identity symbols strengthens rather than erodes that identity — Irene Zempi and Imran Awan, Islamophobia: Lived Experiences of…, 255 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Suppressing a stigmatised group’s identity symbols strengthens rather than erodes that identity #complicates (0.75) — Irene Zempi and Imran Awan, Islamophobia, 255