After 1945 the question shifted from whether to which western nation could commit genocide

Evidence

Remember, again, that the basic question was whether a western nation, a civilized nation, could be capable of such a thing. And then, soon after 1945, we see the query turned around totally as one begins to ask: ‘Is there any western nation that is incapable of it? … In 1941 the Holocaust was not expected and that is the very reason for our subsequent anxieties. We no longer dare to exclude the unimaginable. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 570

Categorization

• XREF: Hilberg’s inversion of the civilization question feeds the Islamophobia readings on moral panic and the imagined vulnerability of Western societies. — connects to: Early silent compliance precluded later resistance to genocide — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 216; Conditions enabling genocide remain while absolute-state deployment grows less likely — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 654; Westerners disbelieved the Rohingya genocide because of their high opinion of Suu Kyi — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 144 (+2 more)

Related

• Heterophobia and boundary anxieties do not directly cause genocide. (similarity 0.81)
• Conditions enabling genocide remain while absolute-state deployment grows less likely (similarity 0.79)
• Genocide is a normal potential of modernity, not its malfunction. (similarity 0.79)
• Nazi and Stalinist genocide expressed rather than betrayed modernity’s spirit (similarity 0.79)
• The Holocaust question must keep its full weight and horror (similarity 0.79)
• Modern civilization was a necessary but not sufficient condition of the Holocaust. (similarity 0.79)
• The Holocaust rendered Western civilization itself incomprehensible, not just the event. (similarity 0.79)
• The Holocaust must be read as integral to modernity, not as its aberration. (similarity 0.78)
• Westerners disbelieved the Rohingya genocide because of their high opinion of Suu Kyi (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The Holocaust’s moral categories grew more contested after consensus about the facts settled #complicates (0.78) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 657
• Early silent compliance precluded later resistance to genocide #expands (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 216
• Genocide combines ordinary modern factors that are usually kept apart #responds-to (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 274
• Conditions enabling genocide remain while absolute-state deployment grows less likely #expands (0.72) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 654
• Westerners disbelieved the Rohingya genocide because of their high opinion of Suu Kyi #complicates (0.70) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 144