Genocidal racism is entangled with ordinary, socially acceptable racist expression

Evidence

Charles Briggs connects these histories of racial thinking and racist practice to their most extreme manifestations in genocidal expression. Thus Briggs shows how the extreme manifestations of ethnoracially expressed genocides are deeply entangled in daily practices and “ordinary,” socially acceptable racist expression. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 168

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the banality-of-evil thesis in Arendt; parallel to how ‘ordinary’ practices scaffold extreme outcomes seen in ritual violence or bureaucratic atrocities.