White supremacist hostility targets fellow whites who defect from the group
Evidence
The second out-group was “race traitors.” This group includes whites who do not support the white pride movement and who may identify with popular black culture (a phenomenon that Yousman, 2003, has termed blackophilia). … The third out-group was composed of liberals and communists. Although it is possible that many of these people might be minorities or race traitors, most of the time this information was unavailable. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1009
Categorization
- XREF: Prejudice targets ingroup defectors as fiercely as ethnic outgroups — an ingroup/outgroup mechanism that directly complicates the standard prejudice account, parallel to how apostates/assimilated ‘moderates’ draw hate in Islamophobia threads.
- DEFINE: Introduces ‘race traitors’ and ‘blackophilia’ as named categories in supremacist cognition.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1009