Nostalgia, Entitlement and Victimhood: The Synergy of White Genocide and Misogyny

Wilson, Chris

doi:10.1080/09546553.2020.1839428

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“…Combinations of misogyny, perceived victimhood and frustrated entitlement, revenge motivations as well as status threats have to a varying extent shown to motivate explicit misogynistic attacks but are also common motives among far-right terrorists (DiBranco, 2020; extremist groups (Kimmel, 2018). Importantly, rather than being the sole motive, misogyny seems to be interrelated with various other grievances and adverse experiences, which together appear to have formed an extremely hostile worldview, where anger, perceived victimhood and frustrated entitlement are played out through retributive and hypermasculine violent acts (e.g., Wilson, 2020). As such, more research into these concepts is necessitated to understand the impacts such beliefs and resulting worldviews can exert upon violent extremism and interpersonal violence.…”

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Misogyny, Violent Extremism and Interpersonal Violence: Examining the Mediating and Contingent Effects of Revenge Motivation, Hypermasculinity, Collective Narcissism and Group Threats

Rottweiler¹,

Clemmow²,

Gill³

2021

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The growing evidence base of risk factors for violent extremism demonstrates overlaps with parallel problem areas like domestic violence, mass murder, and stalking. Yet, empirical research examining the overlap among these domains is limited. The present analysis aims to address the lack of empirical research on the relationship between misogyny, violent extremism, and interpersonal violence by conducting survey-based analyses employing a newly developed and validated psychometric scale to measure misogyny. Based on a UK nationally representative survey (n = 1500), we examine the underlying mechanisms and contingent effects linking misogyny to violent extremism and interpersonal violence. We investigate how misogyny, frustrated narcissistic entitlement, and group threats among men translate into revenge motivation and hypermasculinity and thus, may increase violent extremist intentions and attitudes, as well as justification of and willingness to engage in interpersonal violence. The results show that misogyny predicts violent extremist attitudes and intentions as well as increased support for and willingness to engage in interpersonal violence via revenge planning and hypermasculinity, particularly among men who experience frustrated narcissistic entitlement and greater threats to the ingroup. Among women, misogyny is not associated with violent extremist attitudes or intentions but is associated with increased support for and readiness to use violence. Our findings have important practical implications as we provide evidence which articulates when and for whom misogyny may be a risk factor for violent extremism and interpersonal violence. Establishing the relevance of misogyny as a risk factor for (extremist) violence may provide evidence for more targeted prevention and intervention programs.

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“…Misogynistic attitudes are outwardly expressed in diverse forms of extremism including recent far-right terrorist manifestos (Wilson, 2020) and the jihadi cause (Lia, 2017;Pearson, 2020).…”

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Misogyny, Violent Extremism and Interpersonal Violence: Examining the Mediating and Contingent Effects of Revenge Motivation, Hypermasculinity, Collective Narcissism and Group Threats

Rottweiler¹,

Clemmow²,

Gill³

2021

Preprint

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“…Thus, the gradual decline of Western societies is perceived to be orchestrated from the inside, and the take-over by Muslim immigrants is contingent on these internal allies (such as ‘traitorous’ politicians or more indistinct power elites), who are perceived as gaining from this silent power shift (Ekman, 2015). The ‘replacement’ theory also builds on more explicit theories of ‘white genocide’ (Jackson, 2015; Wilson, 2020), flourishing in neo-Nazi milieus since the 1980s (cf. Askanius, 2021).…”

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The great replacement: Strategic mainstreaming of far-right conspiracy claims

Ekman

2022

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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This paper assesses how the ‘Great Replacement’ conspiracy theory (the idea that ethnically homogeneous populations in European nations are being ‘replaced’ by people of non-European origin) is articulated online by three different actors. By analyzing argument patterns and multimodal features of the cases, the paper shows that the conspiracy theory is a flexible political discourse that can be used strategically by both far-right and mainstream right-wing actors. It highlights the role of affect in online communication, and particularly how anti-immigration actors feed off circulating emotions such as insecurity and fear among the citizenry. The results show that processes of demographic change, caused by immigration, are negatively politicized through the use of pseudo-scientific sources, historic narratives of ethnic homogeneity, threat frames, visual fear appeals and other elements that constitute the wider conspiracy theory of an ongoing ‘replacement’ of native populations. The paper argues that the mainstreaming of conspiracy claims and theories related to immigration poses a threat, not only to democratic institutions and societies, but also to people of immigrant backgrounds.

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“…Furthermore, White nationalists see all non‐White groups, feminists, and liberals as symbolic threats, upsetting the White hegemony with what they claim are inferior morals, values, and belief systems (Bloch, Taylor & Martinez, 2020; Patriot Front, 2020; Savage, 2016; VDare, n.d. ), or in the case of Muslims and especially Jewish people (a common scapegoat among White nationalists) as orchestrating the demise of White Christian culture (Dinnerstein, 1995; Wilson, 2020). For White nationalists, this desire to maintain White cultural dominance is more keenly felt because of their strong White identity and belief in White cultural supremacy.…”

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The Psychology of White Nationalism: Ambivalence Towards a Changing America

Reyna

Bellovary

Harris

2022

Social Issues Policy Review

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The rise in White nationalist ideology in America is one of the pressing issues of our times. In this article, we make the case that White nationalists both extol the talents and virtues of White Americans and idolize and romanticize a former White‐dominated America, while simultaneously condemning and demonizing the current state of America for Whites. This fundamentally ambivalent ideology contributes to dangerous downstream consequences such as fomenting violence against groups that threaten Whites’ status and resources and even calling for outright civil war. This article also examines the psychological impact of rapid demographic and cultural changes on groups in positions of power, and how these changes make some Whites, especially those who might already be suffering from instability, disenfranchisement, and loss, gravitate to groups who validate their fears and transform them into aggrieved entitlement and moral outrage. Finally, this article proposes policies that decision‐makers and other leaders can take to undo the foundational ideologies that White supremacy is built upon and to help curtail its spread.

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Nostalgia, Entitlement and Victimhood: The Synergy of White Genocide and Misogyny

Cited by 34 publications

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Misogyny, Violent Extremism and Interpersonal Violence: Examining the Mediating and Contingent Effects of Revenge Motivation, Hypermasculinity, Collective Narcissism and Group Threats

Misogyny, Violent Extremism and Interpersonal Violence: Examining the Mediating and Contingent Effects of Revenge Motivation, Hypermasculinity, Collective Narcissism and Group Threats

The great replacement: Strategic mainstreaming of far-right conspiracy claims

The Psychology of White Nationalism: Ambivalence Towards a Changing America

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