Dominants delegate punitive violence to members of the targeted group

Evidence

Self-interested, rational subordinates are also routinely induced to act as the dominant group’s henchmen in carrying out malevolent actions against other members of their own group, or even to inflict physical injuries on themselves or their children – with benevolence, not malice – in order to be successful players by the rules of the game in which they have been ensnared by their relations with dominants. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 683 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: High-capacity regimes are likelier to involve state violent specialists in whatever collective violence occurs — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 737; Arbitrary-set stratification drives the worst group violence in history; Dominant groups use systematic terror most ferociously when subordinates challenge them (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Rational subordinates enforce dominants’ violence on their own group #expands (0.95) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 683