Every ingredient enabling the Holocaust was normal for modern civilization

Evidence

The truth is that every ‘ingredient’ of the Holocaust – all those many things that rendered it possible – was normal; ‘normal’ not in the sense of the familiar, of one more specimen in a large class of phenomena long ago described in full, explained and accommodated (on the contrary, the experience of the Holocaust was new and unfamiliar), but in the sense of being fully in keeping with everything we know about our civilization, its guiding spirit, its priorities, its immanent vision of the world – and of the proper ways to pursue human happiness together with a perfect society. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 59

Categorization

• DEFINE: Bauman’s precise redefinition of ‘normal’ — as consonant with civilization’s spirit, not as a familiar specimen — is a key terminological move worth keeping.
• XREF: connects to: The Holocaust was a product of modern civilization, not merely its failure — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 256; Holocaust perpetrators were normal and their institutions socially non-pathological — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 89; Most genocide-conducive factors are normal features of every modern society — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 278 (+5 more)

Related

• The Holocaust was a product of modern civilization, not merely its failure (similarity 0.89)
• The Holocaust must be read as integral to modernity, not as its aberration. (similarity 0.88)
• Holocaust perpetrators were normal and their institutions socially non-pathological (similarity 0.87)
• Modernity’s institutions actively enabled and supplied the Holocaust (similarity 0.87)
• Modern civilization was a necessary but not sufficient condition of the Holocaust. (similarity 0.87)
• The Holocaust’s perpetrators were ordinary educated men of their era, not deviants. (similarity 0.87)
• Most genocide-conducive factors are normal features of every modern society (similarity 0.86)
• The Holocaust is a by-product of runaway modernist design (similarity 0.86)
• The Holocaust is a possibility modernity contains, not its paradigm (similarity 0.86)
• The Holocaust was a product of modernity, not pre-modern barbarity. (similarity 0.86)
• Genocide combines ordinary modern factors that are usually kept apart (similarity 0.85)
• Genocide is a normal potential of modernity, not its malfunction. (similarity 0.84)
• The Holocaust combined long-festering social tensions with the rational instruments modernity created (similarity 0.84)
• The Holocaust is a product of modern rational society, not a Jewish problem alone (similarity 0.84)
• The Holocaust rendered Western civilization itself incomprehensible, not just the event. (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• The Holocaust was a product of modern civilization, not merely its failure #corroborates (0.92) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 256
• Most genocide-conducive factors are normal features of every modern society #corroborates (0.90) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 278
• Modernity’s institutions actively enabled and supplied the Holocaust #corroborates (0.90) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 251
• Holocaust perpetrators were normal and their institutions socially non-pathological #expands (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 89
• The Holocaust was a product of modernity, not pre-modern barbarity. #corroborates (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 82
• The Holocaust is a product of modern rational society, not a Jewish problem alone #corroborates (0.82) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 21
• Modern civilization was a necessary but not sufficient condition of the Holocaust. #expands (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 71
• The Holocaust was rational social management in scientific dress #expands (0.78) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 207