Racism against Romani people is the last acceptable prejudice in Europe
Evidence
This is a book about the diversity and intensity of prejudices against Romani people in a liberal, progressive, decent, Europe. This is a book about what might be described as the last acceptable form of racism in European societies – racism against Romani people. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 35
Categorization
- SEED: Angle: what makes one group’s racism ‘acceptable’ while others are condemned — the moral licensing logic of the decent middle.
- ADDENDUM: Connects to the immodesty piece: how moral panics get selectively applied along class/identity lines.
Related
- Prejudices against Roma are among the last socially acceptable prejudices (similarity 0.88)
- Roma are degraded and reminded of their degraded status (similarity 0.84)
- The decent middle’s prejudice is conscious moral unease, not unconscious bias (similarity 0.82)
- Progressively-framed European institutions can still reproduce the racism they disavow. (similarity 0.82)
- Most racism is lukewarm and ambivalent rather than violently hateful (similarity 0.81)
- Prejudice is formed and reproduced socially, not through internal psychological processes. (similarity 0.81)
- Prejudices are actively accomplished and sustained rather than passively held. (similarity 0.81)
- Anti-Roma prejudice is far more complex than direct hostility (similarity 0.81)
- Anti-Roma prejudice resists explanation as individual psychological bias (similarity 0.81)
- Prejudice is public harm to esteem, not merely private attitude (similarity 0.80)
- Roma are punished for embodying values central to the European ideal (similarity 0.80)
- Roma are framed not just as outsiders but as a distinct moral universe (similarity 0.79)
- European freedom of movement is only conditionally extended to Roma (similarity 0.79)
- Prejudices arising from denying moral worth need societal analysis (similarity 0.79)
- Prejudice research cannot be reduced to individual psychology (similarity 0.79)