Financial distress and cultural anti-Semitism interacted to spread radicalization.

Evidence

The link between pre-existing anti-Semitism and the effect of the financial crisis on Nazi voting points to an important synergy between cultural and economic factors. These results are consistent with the Nazis’ hate message “selling” more easily in places where a history of anti-Semitism coincided with real suffering induced by financial distress. — Sebastian Doerr et al., Financial Crises and Political…, 28

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Prior anti-Semitism roughly doubled the radicalizing effect of bank distress. — Sebastian Doerr et al., Financial Crises and Political…, 27; Bank-crisis exposure predicted later pogroms and deportations of Jews. — Sebastian Doerr et al., Financial Crises and Political…, 30; Anti-Semitic cultural context magnified the Danat crisis’s radicalizing effect — Sebastian Doerr et al., Financial Crises and Political…, 151 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Anti-Semitic cultural context magnified the Danat crisis’s radicalizing effect #expands (0.95) — Sebastian Doerr et al., Financial Crises and Political…, 151
• Both income shocks and elite scapegoating jointly drove Nazi radicalization #corroborates (0.90) — Sebastian Doerr et al., Financial Crises and Political…, 125
• Bank-failure exposure predicts later anti-Semitic persecution across German cities. #corroborates (0.88) — Sebastian Doerr et al., Financial Crises and Political…, 278
• Economic precarity of the lower middle class fueled sudden antisemitism #expands (0.82) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 141
• Conflating capitalism with Jews made anti-capitalist hostility emotionally anchorable #expands (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 146
• Economic retrenchment produced defensive embourgeoisement rather than further radicalization #complicates (0.74) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 140
• Major events trigger waves of radicalization across different ideologies #expands (0.72) — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America, 182