Administrative detachment, not personal hatred, produces modern genocide.

Evidence

Their sober intelligence, together with their almost complete absence of any affections makes them perhaps the most merciless of all. Their organizational way of looking at things predisposes them to totalitarian solutions. Their goal is the construction of gas chambers rather than the pogrom. They do not even have to hate the Jews; they `cope’ with them by administrative measures without any personal contacts with the victims. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 446

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the earlier recorded claim that a bureaucratic ‘doing’ orientation enables genocide without personal hatred of victims, and to the Frankfurt School’s manipulative-character type.
• DEEPTHINKING: The distinction between the pogrom (hot, personal, affective) and the gas chamber (cold, administrative, indifferent) reframes genocide as a product of organizational rationality — an argument a reader could sit with for days.