Naturalist racism drew attack because it enabled extreme cruelty openly

Evidence

In both colonial and postcolonial worlds dominated by racial conception, racist exclusion, and racially tinged resentments, the naturalist conception has been more prone to critical attack, to moral disapprobation, and ultimately to governmental and state distantiation. This was so precisely because of the extremities of violence and cruelty to which the naturalist conception “naturally” lent itself, both as discursive progenitor and as ex post facto rationalization. Dehumanize people in group terms ~ “racialize” them, precisely as Fanon would first use the term (Fanon 1968) — and they are rendered more disposed to dehumanized abasement. Render them abject and there is little to prevent their dehumanized dismissal, their “moral eviction,” to invoke Zygmunt Bauman’s characterization of Nazi treatment of Jews, among others. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 49

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘moral eviction’ concept links to Bauman’s Modernity and the Holocaust and resonates with the dehumanization mechanics in Parable of the Sower’s society.