Jews are hated because they embody a happiness the oppressed must deny themselves.

Evidence

Liberalism had allowed the Jews property, but no power to command. The rights of man were designed to promise happiness even to those without power. Because the cheated masses feel that this promise in general remains a lie as long as there are still classes, their anger is aroused. They feel mocked. They must suppress the very possibility and idea of that happiness, the more relevant it becomes. Wherever it seems to have been achieved despite its fundamental denial, they have to repeat the suppression of their own longing. … Those who spasmodically dominate nature see in a tormented nature a provocative image of powerless happiness. The thought of happiness without power is unbearable because it would then be true happiness. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 128

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The mechanism — hatred of the powerless-happy as a projection of self-suppressed longing — is a genuinely paradigm-shifting account of scapegoating that resists one-sentence summary.
• XREF: Connects to Nietzsche’s ressentiment and to Girard’s scapegoat mechanism; also a template for the Adorno critique Burns later invokes. — connects to: Jews are hated for displaying mimetic impulses civilization has repressed — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 140; Jews were hated because they were secretly envied for embodying wealth without work — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 698; Tribal antisemitism severed hatred of Jews from any actual experience of them

Broader Connections

• Jews were hated because they were secretly envied for embodying wealth without work #contradicts (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 698
• Tribal antisemitism severed hatred of Jews from any actual experience of them #corroborates (0.75)