Anti-Semitic violence is driven by fear that one’s own deeds are corrupt.

Evidence

Of course, seeing a sense of monotheism as a piece of foolishness conceals a deep reverence for it; or, rather, a superstitious fear that it is one’s own deeds which are wrong and corrupt. Madmen are not held spellbound by the goals and purposes people serve today, in the same way that proper people are. This makes them into sinister observers, who must be eliminated. The evil deed will be undone if the witnesses are killed. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1284

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that eliminating the madman/Jew is a magical act to undo one’s own corrupt deeds — the witness-killing logic — is dense and genuinely paradigm-shifting.
• XREF: connects to: Anti-Semitism projects the subject’s own repressed impulses onto the victim — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 147; Religious polemicists attack enemies hardest on desires they fear within themselves — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 587

Broader Connections

• Anti-Semitism projects the subject’s own repressed impulses onto the victim #expands (0.85) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 147
• Religious polemicists attack enemies hardest on desires they fear within themselves #qualifies (0.70) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 587