Subordinates widely share belief in the legitimacy of their own subordinate status.

Evidence

Group-based social hierarchies are also characterized by a high degree of hierarchical consensuality. By this term we mean that there is a high degree of consensus within the social system as to which groups are “dominant” and which groups are “subordinate.” This consensuality not only characterizes the beliefs of dominants, but more importantly, the beliefs of subordinates. This high degree of cross-group consensuality is critical for the orderly and relatively peaceful coordination of dominant and submissive behaviors and the maintenance of an ongoing system of group-based social inequality. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3252

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Gramsci’s hegemony, Marx’s false consciousness critiques, and the earlier chapters on SDT; also calls to mind Platner’s work on the psychology of the oppressed. — connects to: Subordinate classes’ belief in their incapacity helps sustain their subordination. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 498
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that subordinates’ own consensus is ‘more important’ than dominants’ for peaceful inequality is a dense, paradigm-level observation about how oppression sustains itself.