The White Racial Frame makes anti-non-White discrimination seem consistent with American values

Evidence

According to Feagin, US law, politics, and social norms are structured through a White racial frame of reference to advantage Whites and disadvantage non-Whites. As a result, only Whites are eligible to enjoy meaningful equality, justice, and liberty; meanwhile, the denial of rights to non-Whites is not perceived as contradictory to American values. The White Racial Frame explains why one terrorist attack by a Muslim triggers surveillance, investigation, and prosecution of Muslim communities, while White right-wing extremism does not incriminate White Christian communities en masse. As applied to Jews, Catholics, and Mormons, their entrance into social Whiteness did not upset the White Racial Frame. Rather, these immigrants accommodated it. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 378

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the White Racial Frame concept and its core mechanism: it absorbs outgroups who accommodate it rather than being threatened by them.
• XREF: connects to: White racial ideology supports formal equality while opposing burdensome change — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 3436; White Americans deflect minority discrimination claims by recasting free speech as the harmed party. — Felix Danbold, Ivuoma N. Onyeador, and Miguel M. Unzueta, Dominant groups support digressive…, 73