Racism’s language is recycled against immigrant workers in Western states.

Evidence

With the Jews moving today massively towards the upper-middle classes, and hence out of reach of the direct experience of the masses, group antagonisms arising from freshly fomented concerns with boundary-drawing and boundary-maintenance tend to focus today in most Western countries on immigrant workers. There are political forces eager to capitalize on such concerns. They often use a language developed by modern racism to argue in favour of segregation and physical separation: a slogan successfully used by the Nazis on their road to power as a means of gaining the support of the combative enmity of the masses for their own racist intentions. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 231

Categorization

• XREF: Direct bridge to Islamophobia scholarship: the borrowing of modern-racism language to target immigrant workers is the exact mechanism later readings apply to Muslims. — connects to: Cultural racism substitutes cultural traits for biological ones in racializing groups.; Modern racism against Muslims persists through more polite, euphemistic policy language — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 749; Cultural traits like language, clothing, and religious practice can racialize a group. (+4 more)
• ADDENDUM: The boundary-drawing mobilization against immigrant workers parallels the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ piece’s class/identity signaling themes, and the recycling of a Nazi-era slogan anticipates the tree-metaphor grafting logic in ‘Grafting & Growth.‘

Related

• Cultural racism travels and can be adopted without local Jewish populations (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Modern racism against Muslims persists through more polite, euphemistic policy language #expands (0.78) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 749
• Anti-immigration writers frame Muslim immigration as religious warfare on Western civilization #exemplifies (0.78) — Margaret Hodson, Baby Jihad, 31
• Cultural traits like language, clothing, and religious practice can racialize a group. #expands (0.75)
• Cultural racism travels and can be adopted without local Jewish populations #expands (0.73) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 225
• Cultural racism substitutes cultural traits for biological ones in racializing groups. #expands (0.72)
• Cultural racism targets Muslims’ beliefs and traditions as if they were inherited essence. #exemplifies (0.72)
• Industrial capital weaponized racism to fragment the labor movement #expands (0.70)