Minority self-administration routinely sustains the regime oppressing it.

Evidence

By so doing, they already willy-nilly accepted the role of the lower rung of the German administrative hierarchy. Their activity, which took all the problems related to the daily life of the Jews off German hands, was already a co-operation – of sorts. In this however, the role of Jewish communal authorities, notwithstanding the extremity of the oppressive regime, was not essentially different from the roles normally played by the leaderships of oppressed minorities in making the continuation of repression (indeed, the sheer reproduction of the oppressive regime) feasible. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 383

Categorization

• XREF: A generalizable mechanism of how governance by presumption — taking routine burdens off the state’s hands — reproduces domination, a key building block for colonial and Islamophobic exclusion analyses. — connects to: A dominant minority can hold power through threats and enforced coordination costs — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 287
• DEFINE: Introduces the idea of co-operation as willy-nilly structural function rather than intentional act.

Broader Connections

• A dominant minority can hold power through threats and enforced coordination costs #corroborates (0.85) — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 287