Heterophobia and boundary anxieties do not directly cause genocide.

Evidence

However abominable they are, and however spacious is the reservoir of potential violence they contain, heterophobia and boundary-contest anxieties do not result – directly or indirectly – in genocide. Confusing heterophobia with racism and the Holocaust-like organized crime is misleading and also potentially harmful, as it diverts scrutiny from the genuine causes of the disaster, which are rooted in some aspects of modern mentality and modern social organization, rather than in timeless reactions to the strangers or even in less universal, yet fairly ubiquitous identity conflicts. In the initiation and perpetuation of the Holocaust, traditional heterophobia played but an auxiliary role. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 232

Categorization

• XREF: Contradicts any reading of the Holocaust as cultural sedimentation or timeless stranger-hatred; scaffolds toward Bauman’s modernity-as-gardener thesis that later Islamophobia readings build on. — connects to: Prejudice is neither necessary nor sufficient for genocide — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 702; Genocide is creative weeding, not destructive hatred — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 268; Traditional antisemitism negatively correlates with willingness to perpetrate genocide — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 521 (+2 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: A paradigm-steering claim: the explanatory appeal to timeless xenophobia is both false and actively harmful, because it steers attention off the genuinely causal features of modern social organization.

Related

• Genocide is a normal potential of modernity, not its malfunction. (similarity 0.88)
• Prejudice is neither necessary nor sufficient for genocide (similarity 0.85)
• Genocide is creative weeding, not destructive hatred (similarity 0.83)
• Traditional antisemitism negatively correlates with willingness to perpetrate genocide (similarity 0.83)
• Nazi and Stalinist genocide expressed rather than betrayed modernity’s spirit (similarity 0.82)
• The Holocaust must be read as integral to modernity, not as its aberration. (similarity 0.82)
• Normalizing the Holocaust as one genocide among many also defuses its challenge to sociology (similarity 0.82)
• Genocide’s moral invisibility recruits far more participants than conscience-stifling does (similarity 0.81)
• The Holocaust was a product of modernity, not pre-modern barbarity. (similarity 0.81)
• Antisemitism acted as a catalyst for Nazi rule, world war, and genocide (similarity 0.81)
• Popular hatred was insufficient to drive the Holocaust (similarity 0.81)
• Modern antisemitism is a learned theoretical product, not raw experience. (similarity 0.81)
• After 1945 the question shifted from whether to which western nation could commit genocide (similarity 0.81)
• Most genocide-conducive factors are normal features of every modern society (similarity 0.80)
• Genocide combines ordinary modern factors that are usually kept apart (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Genocide is creative weeding, not destructive hatred #complicates (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 268
• Traditional antisemitism negatively correlates with willingness to perpetrate genocide #complicates (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 521
• Genocide is a normal potential of modernity, not its malfunction. #expands (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 332
• Genocide’s moral invisibility recruits far more participants than conscience-stifling does #expands (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 96