Genocide follows a staged progression from derogation through brutality to systematic killing

Evidence

Staub goes on to make another point, to which I have alluded earlier in this discussion. The scapegoating group is not capable of leaping immediately to genocide, to killing the members of the scapegoated group just because of their group membership. There is the familiar progression of acts. Open criticism of the scapegoated groups produces derogation, which licenses brutality; brutality is justified, and leads to further derogation and the discovery that the scapegoated group is somehow not included in humanity. Finally, killings, and then systematic killings. Genocide. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3979 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The genocide grew from decades of escalating hate-speech argumentation, not sudden eruption. — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 51; Persecution separates victims and begins massacres short of outright genocide — Gregory H. Stanton, Ten Stages of Genocide, 16; The ten genocide stages are non-linear and earlier stages persist throughout — Gregory H. Stanton, Ten Stages of Genocide, 0 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Genocide emerges through a progressive ladder of escalating acts, not a sudden leap #expands (0.97) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3979