Germans approved administrative segregation while rejecting visible violence against Jews
Evidence
Dislike of violence – particularly of such violence as could be seen and was meant to be seen – coincided, however, with a much more sympathetic attitude towards administrative measures taken against Jews. A great number of Germans welcomed an energetic and vociferously advertised action aimed at the segregation, separation, and disempowering of the Jews – those traditional expressions and instruments of heterophobia or contestant enmity. In addition, many Germans welcomed the measures portrayed as the punishment of the Jew (as long as one could pretend that the punished was indeed the conceptual Jew) as an imaginary (yet plausible) solution to quite real (if subconscious) anxieties and fears of displacement and insecurity. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 220
Categorization
- DEFINE: Introduces ‘heterophobia’ and ‘contestant enmity’ as conceptual terms for traditional antisemitism.
- XREF: connects to: Germans rejected violent assaults yet approved legal exclusion of Jews. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 523; Ordinary Germans approved state exclusion while avoiding personal persecution — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 221
Related
- Germans rejected violent assaults yet approved legal exclusion of Jews. (similarity 0.89)
- Ordinary Germans approved state exclusion while avoiding personal persecution (similarity 0.84)
- Nazi ideology encompassed antisemitic views that blamed Germans rather than Jews (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Germans rejected violent assaults yet approved legal exclusion of Jews.
#corroborates(1.00) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 523 - Ordinary Germans approved state exclusion while avoiding personal persecution
#corroborates(0.90) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 221