Specific Term for prejudice/prejudiced behaviour (racial, gender, etc...) that justifies itself by a prior history of prejudice?

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If someone made the following, certainly problematic, statements:
"There is a higher risk (member of oppressed minority) will underperform at a job or task, since it is more likely they are traumatized or disenfranchised by prejudice and/or poor treatment they have suffered in the past."
"(Member of oppressed minority) cannot be trusted, since there is an above average likelihood they will harbor mistrust or resentment due to being treated poorly before."
Is there a specific term for this kind of thinking/prejudiced behaviour - which can easily lead to a factually racist or other anti-minority outcome, WITHOUT a need for the person making that kind of judgement to be themselves categorically racist or against the minority in question?

Anton · Answer

This might be described as self-fulfilling prophecy, as "self-fulfilling bias", or as "confirmation bias". I regret that I cannot think of a shorter term or a single word. It will be interesting to read what others say.
confirmation bias may be slightly too strong for what you describe because it often related to underlying desire rather than casual behaviour.
Psychology Today: Once we have formed a view, we embrace information that confirms that view while ignoring, or rejecting, information that casts doubt on it. Confirmation bias suggests that we don’t perceive circumstances objectively.

Specific Term for prejudice/prejudiced behaviour (racial, gender, etc...) that justifies itself by a prior history of prejudice?

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