Early silent compliance precluded later resistance to genocide

Evidence

Not that indifference itself was indifferent; it surely was not, as far as the success of the Final Solution was concerned. It was the paralysis of that public which failed to turn into a mob, a paralysis achieved by the fascination and fear emanating from the display of power, which permitted the deadly logic of problem-solving to take its course unhampered. In Lawrence Stoke’s words, ‘The failure when the regime first set insecurely in power to protest its inhumane measures made prevention of their logical culmination all but impossible, however unwanted and disapproved this undoubtedly was.’ The spread and the depth of heterophobia was apparently sufficient for the German public not to protest against violence, even if the majority did not like it and remained immune to racist indoctrination. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 216

Categorization

• QUESTION: This early-failure-locks-later-pathway claim is a mechanism worth carrying into studies of contemporary escalating exclusion of target groups.
• XREF: Parallels Milgram-style and bystander-effect findings; also a bridge to Arendt’s banality of evil and to later readings on how bureaucratic normalization escalates. — connects to: Public indifference, not hatred, greased the machinery of genocide — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 215; Civility coordinated the genocide and prompted bystander passivity rather than resistance — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 320; Genocide required replacing collective rage with bureaucratic obedience — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 260 (+5 more)

Related

• Public indifference, not hatred, greased the machinery of genocide (similarity 0.87)
• The absence of active anti-anti-Semitism enabled complicity with genocide. (similarity 0.80)
• Civility coordinated the genocide and prompted bystander passivity rather than resistance (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Civility coordinated the genocide and prompted bystander passivity rather than resistance #corroborates (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 320
• Genocide required replacing collective rage with bureaucratic obedience #expands (0.78) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 260
• Oppressed people maintained a continuous, dignified resistance throughout history #contradicts (0.72)