Germans rejected violent assaults yet approved legal exclusion of Jews.

Evidence

The point that cannot be over-emphasized is that all these negative reactions to the open display of anti-Jewish violence coincided, without any visible contradiction, with a massive and keen approval of the anti-Jewish legislation - with its redefinition of the Jew, eviction of the Jew from the German Volk and the ever-thickening layer of legal restrictions and prohibitions. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 523

Categorization

• XREF: This split between violence-revulsion and legal-sterilization approval parallels the reader’s own ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ work on how moral panics recruit ordinary people through legality, not open brutality. — connects to: Germans approved administrative segregation while rejecting visible violence against Jews — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 220; Ordinary Germans approved state exclusion while avoiding personal persecution — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 221
• QUESTION: What exactly made legal-bureaucratic exclusion feel morally acceptable while open violence repelled? Bauman gestures at depersonalization but the psychology of the legal-form shift could be deepened.

Related

• Germans approved administrative segregation while rejecting visible violence against Jews (similarity 0.89)
• Ordinary Germans approved state exclusion while avoiding personal persecution (similarity 0.83)
• Legal exclusion publicly approved was a precondition for the Final Solution. (similarity 0.81)