Reading bigoted quotes in isolation misreads how prejudice actually works

Evidence

This is a mistake, and a dangerous mistake at that, as Christopher Ricks (1988) convincingly argues in his profound study of Eliot’s antisemitism. However repulsive the quoted sentence may sound, “it is importantly less objectionable than the sequence of sentences within which it is deployed.” — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 415

Categorization

• DEFINE: Methodological point: single-sentence condemnation of prejudice misses the more insidious machinery of corrupted reasoning within a passage.