Zero-sum political systems fuse ingroup love with outgroup opposition

Evidence

We also discovered that once catalyzed, White identity leads White individuals to express more opposition to prooutgroup policies and greater support for pro-ingroup policy. This co-occurrence of pro-outgroup and pro-ingroup stances is instructive. Social psychologists remind us that ingroup ”love” is not tantamount to outgroup ”hate” (Brewer, 1999). Indeed, the correspondence between these is more likely to manifest when an identity is institutionally enshrined in a system with zero-sum features, such as America’s political system is. — Efrén Pérez, Jessica HyunJeong Lee, Ana Oaxaca, Tania Solano Cervantes, Jasmine García Rodríguez, Kimberly Lam, and David McFall, Manifold Threats to White Identity and…, 82

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Relevant to ‘On Sacrifice’: the institutional/zero-sum framing parallels how sacrificial systems lock in group hierarchies and in/out distinctions.
• DEEPTHINKING: A genuinely dense point: ingroup love and outgroup hate are separable in typical psychology but become fused by institutional zero-sum structure — institutional context, not psychology, is the load-bearing variable.
• XREF: connects to: Love of one’s ingroup drives intergroup bias as much as hatred of outgroups — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 581; Ingroup favoritism operates independently of outgroup hatred — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 1496; White ingroup identity is politically inert while outgroup antagonism drives policy preferences — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 2192 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Ingroup favoritism operates independently of outgroup hatred #contradicts (0.90) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1496
• Ingroup love extremes do not drive outgroup prejudice #contradicts (0.90) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 327
• Love of one’s ingroup drives intergroup bias as much as hatred of outgroups #expands (0.85) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 581
• Zero-sum competition over resources produces ethnocentrism and intergroup hostility #expands (0.85) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 136
• Groups split favorably toward their own members and derogate outgroup attributes #exemplifies (0.80) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1973
• White ingroup identity is politically inert while outgroup antagonism drives policy preferences #qualifies (0.75) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2192