Lynching requires prior socialization to be acceptable

Evidence

‘The actions of white lynch mobs and the ritualistic nature of their behavior,’ she argues, ‘cannot be attributed to some strange and foreign beast released at the time of cruelty.’ Lynching is not only the work of some exceptionally violent white supremacists. There has to be prior socialization to make lynching acceptable, and each participant in the drama understands what is collectively at stake even at the height of the excitement. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 165

Categorization

• XREF: Prior-socialization argument echoes the Abu Ghraib chapter’s core claim about institutional culture preceding individual soldier sadism — and Milgram’s obedience experiments.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 165