Mass killing requires ideology to overcome taboos against killing

Evidence

Material factors such as institutional erosion, greed, political opportunity structures, and elite conflict are vitally important drivers of genocidal violence. However, inducing ordinary people to participate in eliminationist violence requires an ideological support structure to overcome strong taboos against killing. — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 18

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how manufactured enemies sustain solidarity and whether moral correction against threat-hardened beliefs backfires. — connects to: Ideology exonerates killers but cannot fully suppress residual self-disquiet — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2216; Mass murder required neutralizing proximity-based moral drives. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 528; Rhetorical conflation of Arabs, Muslims, and Middle Easterners legitimized mass execution. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1175 (+6 more)

Related

• Rhetorical conflation of Arabs, Muslims, and Middle Easterners legitimized mass execution. (similarity 0.80)
• Mass killing emerged as a practical last resort once removal schemes failed (similarity 0.79)
• Mass murder required neutralizing proximity-based moral drives. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Ideological language precedes and enables state violence against target groups #expands (0.78)
• Ideology exonerates killers but cannot fully suppress residual self-disquiet #qualifies (0.75) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2216
• Mass murder required neutralizing proximity-based moral drives. #complicates (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 528
• Mass murder does not require extreme, demonic emotions in its perpetrators #corroborates (0.75)
• Perceiving a group as powerful and malevolent rationalizes extreme violence as self-defense #expands (0.74)
• Rhetorical conflation of Arabs, Muslims, and Middle Easterners legitimized mass execution. #exemplifies (0.72) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1175