Self-loathing intellectuals project their hatred onto a generalized other group

Evidence

The only way such a person can be so unbridled and open in his racism toward his own people is by having metaphorically replaced his collective identity with his individual persona. The man detests himself; he projects that loathing toward a generalized ‘other’, of which he is a member, so that he can express his hatred toward himself with impunity. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 449

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the ‘house negro’ frame from the preceding paragraph and to general theories of colonial self-loathing, e.g. Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks (evoked by Dabashi’s own title). — connects to: Capitalism generates intellectuals who are hostile to the system that produces them — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 272; Hatred of welfare claimants actually expresses hatred of one’s own work. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1708