Sectarian discrimination vertically integrated Protestant workers under Unionist elites.
Evidence
That contradiction found persistent institutional expression in the systemically discriminatory nature of the Protestant state: in the gerrymandering of constituencies that consolidated Unionist political power in what was already a statelet effectively brought into being by gerrymandering; in discrimination in the distribution of public housing; in the workplace, where Protestants were notoriously promoted over more qualified or experienced Catholics; and in access to welfare and education. … In a way familiar from other racial states, from the southern states of the USA to South Africa or Israel, these discriminatory practices were required to maintain the vertical integration of working-class Protestants with Unionist landowners and capitalist entrepreneurs, who in all other respects happily exploited their coreligionists. … Above all, and most significant and far-reaching in its implications, was the permanent retention of the Special Powers Act, a British emergency provision dating from the colonial nineteenth century that was never removed from the books from the foundation 15 Heaney (1975, 84). — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 2092
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Ideological hegemony operates when subordinates internalize the dominant group’s justifications of inequality; Ethnic division between English and Irish workers serves capitalist domination; Disadvantaged group members internalize the same stereotypes advantaged groups hold — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 1401
Broader Connections
- Ethnic division between English and Irish workers serves capitalist domination
#epitomizes(0.85) - Disadvantaged group members internalize the same stereotypes advantaged groups hold
#epitomizes(0.80) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1401 - Ideological hegemony operates when subordinates internalize the dominant group’s justifications of inequality
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