The former is a form of divide-and-rule mentality (like the British empire marking certain ‘races’ as ‘martial races’ and effectively creating a racial heirarchy), the latter is objectification, fetishization and yes fearmongering to leverage human nature as a way to make racism part of culture.
I don’t know about fear mongering, because that’s quite specific, but those ideas were deployed by racists in order to further their own racist agendas.
>Like Asians being “model minorities” or Black men having “BBCs”I’m starting to think these tropes are white nationalist fearmongering.
The former is a form of divide-and-rule mentality (like the British empire marking certain ‘races’ as ‘martial races’ and effectively creating a racial heirarchy), the latter is objectification, fetishization and yes fearmongering to leverage human nature as a way to make racism part of culture.
Divide and rule is fear mongering
I don’t know about fear mongering, because that’s quite specific, but those ideas were deployed by racists in order to further their own racist agendas.