Those who profit most from exploitation actively propagate prejudice

Evidence

Adopting a broad perspective, Allport observed that “there lies at the heart of any diversified and stratified social system the tempting possibility that economic, sexual, political, and status gains may result from the deliberate (and even from unconscious) exploitation of minorities. To achieve these gains prejudice is propagated by those who stand to win the most advantage” (p. 234). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 118

Categorization

• XREF: This is the rational-choice/exploitation view of prejudice, echoing the functionalist accounts in the reader’s law-and-institutions books (Milgrom, Bernstein) about who sustains costly institutions — here, who benefits from propagating prejudice. — connects to: Anti-Semitism deflects class hatred onto merchants who embody the whole system’s exploitation.; Employers exploit society’s broader prejudices as a free labor-control resource — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 916
• SEED: Angle: the modern descendants of Allport’s functional view — how whole industries (gig economy, surveillance capitalism) passively or actively profit from ethnic stereotyping embedded in algorithmic hiring.