Defensiveness about Nazi crimes signals moral shock and offers hope of non-repetition

Evidence

One can conclude from this that those who found themselves on the defensive, even where they only supported rudiments of the Nazi ideology, did not agree with any repetition of what had happened. Defensiveness itself is a sign of the shock they experienced, and therefore offers hopeful prospects. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 499

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Defensiveness about Nazi crimes signals shock and warrants hope, yet Adorno undermined that hope. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2028; Threat to in-group moral image triggers defensive reinterpretation of atrocity reports. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2136; Defensive Germans superficially accept guilt while warding off latent responsibility — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 1180 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Defensiveness about Nazi crimes signals shock and warrants hope, yet Adorno undermined that hope. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2028; Threat to in-group moral image triggers defensive reinterpretation of atrocity reports. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2136; Defensive Germans superficially accept guilt while warding off latent responsibility — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 1180 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Moral unmasking that fails to shock bolsters the very values it attacks #complicates (0.74)