Support for digressive victimhood claims tracks outgroup prejudice.

Evidence

Taken at face value, one might expect that whereas support for our competitive victimhood claim would be predicted by outgroup prejudice (i.e., racial resentment), support for our digressive victimhood claim might be purely associated with belief in the digressive principle (i.e., support for free speech). However, given our theory that digressive victimhood claims are endorsed for hierarchy maintenance purposes, we predicted that outgroup prejudice (i.e., racial resentment) would be positively associated with support for both victimhood claims. — Felix Danbold, Ivuoma N. Onyeador, and Miguel M. Unzueta, Dominant groups support digressive…, 102

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s active question about whether dominant groups adopt subordinate moral/victimhood language as a rationalizing ideology under threat. — connects to: Critiques of victim-identification culture span opposed political positions — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1938; Insincerity marks some dominant-group victimhood claims meant to forestall criticism. — Felix Danbold, Ivuoma N. Onyeador, and Miguel M. Unzueta, Dominant groups support digressive…, 18; Preference for digressive over competitive victimhood persists beyond general conservative ideology. — Felix Danbold, Ivuoma N. Onyeador, and Miguel M. Unzueta, Dominant groups support digressive…, 60 (+6 more)
• SEED: The claim that apparent free-speech moral principle is recruited for hierarchy maintenance is an article angle on how egalitarian-sounding language gets weaponized.

Broader Connections

• Outgroup prejudice predicts support for both competitive and digressive victimhood #expands (0.95)
• People endorse digressive victimhood claims without believing the principle they invoke #qualifies (0.75) — Felix Danbold, Ivuoma N. Onyeador, and Miguel M. Unzueta, Dominant groups support digressive…, 69
• Victimized groups also hold prejudice against weaker and other outgroups #qualifies (0.72)