Supremacist ideology taints even educated, progressive Sinhalese elites

Evidence

Notably, Dissanayake was considered smart, talented, efficient, suave, articulate, and modern, to the point where many considered him a potential president long before he launched his presidential campaign in the early 1990s. That such an individual could resort to these vile threats says much about the supremacist mindset that has seared the psyches of even progressive Sinhalese Buddhists. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 189

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to reader’s question about whether professed moderate conviction diverges from measured bias — a ‘modern, progressive’ politician deploying genocidal rhetoric shows ideology overriding putatively rational commitment. — connects to: Radical Western ideologies recruited educated non-white elites by assuaging inferiority — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1411

Broader Connections

• Radical Western ideologies recruited educated non-white elites by assuaging inferiority #complicates (0.80) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1411