Modern antisemitism is a learned theoretical product, not raw experience.

Evidence

The now dominant form of antisemitism is a product of theory, not of elementary experience; it is supported by the process of teaching and learning, not by intellectually unprocessed responses to the context of daily interaction. … Yet there was no road leading from such heterophobia or even boundary-drawing anxiety of the masses, in a way a ‘private affair’ of the lower classes, to sophisticated antisemitic theories of universal ambitions, like this of a deadly race or the ‘world conspiracy’. To capture popular imagination, such theories much refer to facts normally inaccessible and unknown to the masses and certainly not located within the realm of their daily and unmediated experience. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 229

Categorization

• XREF: Deploys the Lenin ‘trade-union consciousness’ distinction — theory vs. spontaneity — which parallels the construction-of-the-Other theme in later Islamophobia readings. — connects to: Enlightenment thinkers grounded antisemitism in progressive secular ideology, not religious prejudice.; In modernity tradition is justified only by knowledge not derived from tradition. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 98; Antisemitism was added to Pan-German program rather than foundational to it (+3 more)

Related

• Enlightenment thinkers grounded antisemitism in progressive secular ideology, not religious prejudice. (similarity 0.88)
• Theoretical antisemitism matters through its link to state social-engineering ambitions. (similarity 0.85)
• Antisemitism could link domestic and foreign policy methods but early pan-leaders missed it. (similarity 0.84)
• Antisemitism was added to Pan-German program rather than foundational to it (similarity 0.83)
• The Holocaust fused antisemitism with social and political mechanisms of an entirely different character. (similarity 0.82)
• The Holocaust must be read as integral to modernity, not as its aberration. (similarity 0.81)
• Heterophobia and boundary anxieties do not directly cause genocide. (similarity 0.81)
• The Holocaust was a product of modernity, not pre-modern barbarity. (similarity 0.81)
• Modernity’s admired and genocidal faces belong to one inseparable body (similarity 0.80)
• All Holocaust scholarship is ultimately a debate over modernity’s self-image. (similarity 0.80)
• The Holocaust is a product of modern rational society, not a Jewish problem alone (similarity 0.80)
• The commonsense antisemitism-explains-Holocaust causal link collapses under scrutiny. (similarity 0.80)
• Nazi ideology encompassed antisemitic views that blamed Germans rather than Jews (similarity 0.80)
• Pan-movement antisemitism was severed from actual Jewish experience and followed ideological logic (similarity 0.80)
• Traditional antisemitism negatively correlates with willingness to perpetrate genocide (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Theoretical antisemitism matters through its link to state social-engineering ambitions. #expands (0.82) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 230
• Antisemitism was added to Pan-German program rather than foundational to it #exemplifies (0.78)
• In modernity tradition is justified only by knowledge not derived from tradition. #expands (0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 98