Racist reduction of enemies is tolerated when the target is deemed an enemy.

Evidence

Most readers of the Laingen message will concede, as doubtless he does too, that one should not reduce other people or societies to such a simple and stereotypical core. We do not today allow that public discourse should treat blacks and Jews that way, just as we would (and do) laugh off Iranian portrayals of America as the Great Satan. Too simple, too ideological, too racist. But for this particular enemy, Persia, the reduction serves, as it did when the New Republics Martin Peretz reproduced a page of manifestly racist prose (February 7, 1981) by a seventeenth-century Englishman on “The Turk,” called it a “classic” for students of Middle Eastern culture, and then said it tells us how Muslims behave. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 102

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Dehumanization of targeted groups makes violence against them seem reasonable.; the MOC “The Enemy-Making Machine: How Ourselves, the True, and Every Other Are Built from War”