Total racial hatred is self-destructive because it erases too much of one’s own humanity

Evidence

In order really to hate white people, one has to blot so much out of the mind-and the heart-that this hatred itself becomes an exhausting and self-destructive pose… . One is always in the position of having to decide between amputation and gangrene” (82-83). — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 798

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racial division damages white and black Americans alike — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 815; Paternalist abolitionists reproduced rather than abolished racial hierarchy — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 907; Security purchased through racial destruction is inherently self-undermining — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 145 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Security purchased through racial destruction is inherently self-undermining #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 145
• Hate toward outgroups can reflect self-hatred projected outward. #complicates (0.75) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2341