ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how domination can be exerted over active, militant minorities: social cryptomnesia, the phenomenon whereby people's acceptance and integration of values promoted by minorities is often accompanied by obliviousness regarding the role played by minority groups, which results in the perpetuation of a negative image of minority groups. It presents a line of research that shows how this phenomenon can be mitigated, using the example of discrimination towards militant feminist groups. The chapter explains a general phenomenon, social cryptomnesia, that points out the detrimental effects for minority influence of merely focusing the target's attention on the source's identity. Mugny and Pérez show that social cryptomnesia is where dominance over nomic minorities and resistance against anomic minorities meet. Based on the research reported in the chapter, and on the cryptomnesia phenomenon, it was reasonable to expect that they would report higher scores for women's rights than for feminist movements; and indeed all differences were in favour of women's rights.
