Is there a word for the phenomenon where it's easier for people from minority groupings to get into positions of power if they're conservative?

"Thatcher effect" is taken.

@lambdagrrl "respectability"

@patience well yeah but like a specific term

@lambdagrrl idk, 'respectability' has always been pretty concise for me, as it describes the normative consumption of a member of a marginal group being accessible, familiar, photogenic, etc., and requiring the barest minimum of empathy/thought for the population that member is meant to signify/represent. and a member of a group who knows this is the formula which works will go far within that structure of normativity. 'respectability' can also be parsed more derisively as 'sellout' or ''tool'

i mean… i guess one could come up with a highly specific neologism for it, but unless one presented itself memetically at a macro scale, then i doubt it's needed much

@patience Fair. (Though I don't think people like Theresa May are sellouts by virtue of having nothing to sell?)

@lambdagrrl aside from her almost winning the intersectional lottery for being white, cis, het, middle-class, able-bodied, etc. her selling point is being a signifier for whiteness, conservatism, racism, nationalism, control, etc.

@patience yeah, I guess this only works for people in one minority grouping. Maybe in a few decades it'll be up to two.