Racism shows natural affinity with anti-modern emotions

Evidence

This fact suggests an essentially pre-modern character of racism; its natural affinity, so to speak, with anti-modern emotions and its selective fitness as a vehicle for such emotions. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 181

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Modern equality makes ineradicable natural differences the basis of cruel group conflict; Racism is a thoroughly modern weapon serving pre-modern struggles — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 181; Racism develops from elemental antipathy through theorized levels — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 185 (+4 more)

Related

• Racism is a thoroughly modern weapon serving pre-modern struggles (similarity 0.86)
• Racism and hostility intensify rather than erase traditional identifications. (similarity 0.84)
• Racism develops from elemental antipathy through theorized levels (similarity 0.84)
• Racist ideas and practices predate the modern term and European modernity. (similarity 0.83)
• Modern racism and antisemitism are civilized rationales for primitive instincts (similarity 0.82)
• Racism persists today as egalitarian values mixed with racial animus (similarity 0.82)
• Racism exists as a variable spectrum, not a single invariant form (similarity 0.82)
• Western rationalism itself generates racism as its necessary false consciousness. (similarity 0.81)
• Nazi racism was consonant with modern social-engineering worldviews rather than a medieval relapse (similarity 0.81)
• Racism is defined by its practice, not by intensity or rationalization (similarity 0.81)
• Racism is usually wrongly folded into a general category of prejudice (similarity 0.81)
• Discriminatory acts rest on shared mental representations even when unintentional (similarity 0.81)
• Racism arises from Western rationality itself, not as its archaic residue (similarity 0.81)
• Racism relocated from biology into culture after Darwinism lost legitimacy (similarity 0.81)
• Racism operates even without deliberate hatred (similarity 0.80)