Genocide is inherent to modernity, not an exception to it

Evidence

It is also this same power, driven by a progress theology, that renders the phenomenon of genocide, especially the Holocaust, an exception to modernity, when in fact genocide is inherent in it. … My argument instead is that the two phenomena are structurally interconnected, genocide being one of the necessary conditions and manifestations of this “state,” manifestations that do not always take on the form of genocide as an “event,” but they remain—in structural terms—genocidal nonetheless. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 407

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Transfers the state-of-exception logic from law to genocide, arguing structural (slow, incremental) genocidal conditions parallel Agamben’s exception — a paradigm-shifting claim about modernity itself.
• XREF: Connects to Agamben’s state of exception and to the critique of progress theology in The Bias of Communication and The Defeat of the Spanish Armada. — connects to: Genocide is a recurring feature of human history with a uniquely bloody twentieth century. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 302
• QUESTION: How would ‘structural genocide’ be empirically operationalized, or does it function purely as a theoretical frame?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 407