Anti-Semitism is a manufactured discharge of anger, not an innate disposition.

Evidence

There is no genuine anti-Semitism, and certainly no such thing as a born anti-Semite. The adults to whom the cry for the blood of Jews has become second nature do not know the reason why any more than the young people who are called upon to spill that blood. Those in command who know the reasons do not hate the Jews and do not love their own followers. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 127

Categorization

• XREF: Adorno’s manufactured-outlet account of anti-Semitism connects directly to Arendt’s ‘banality of evil’ thesis and to Milgram’s obedience experiments — the idea that perpetrators act without genuine conviction. — connects to: Anti-Semitism’s appeal is destructive pleasure, not material gain — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 125; Anti-Semitism projects the subject’s own repressed impulses onto the victim — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 147; Anti-Semitism is pathological projection stripped of self-reflection, not projection itself — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 150 (+4 more)

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
• Modern antisemitism is a learned theoretical product, not raw experience. #corroborates (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 229
• Anti-Semitism is pathological projection stripped of self-reflection, not projection itself #qualifies (0.78) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 150