Modern rational bureaucracy rendered genocide morally neutral to its perpetrators

Evidence

This is precisely the point: it took quite a few formidable modern inventions, the “rational bureaucracy” prominent among them, to render certain murders and other acts of cruelty exempt from moral judgments and so, in the eyes of the perpetrators, “morally neutral,” and to deploy a wide range of human “values and beliefs” in the service of murder. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 449

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the Frankfurt School material on bureaucratic ‘doing’ orientation enabling genocide without personal hatred, directly linking this to those vault claims. — connects to: Genocide is always deliberately organized rather than spontaneous — Gregory H. Stanton, Ten Stages of Genocide, 4; Genocide produces a moral reversal where killing itself becomes a duty. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 135
• DEEPTHINKING: Condenses a dense claim: that bureaucracy’s moral neutrality is an active deployment of values in murder’s service, resisting one-sentence summary.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 449