Nazi antisemitism borrowed conventional views but wielded them with demagogic skill

Evidence

Feder’s 25 points contain only standard measures demanded by all antisemitic groups: expulsion of naturalized Jews, and treatment of native Jews as aliens. Nazi antisemitic oratory was always much more radical than its program. Waldemar Gurian, “Antisemitism in Modern Germany,” in Essays on Antisemitism, ed. by Koppel S. Pinson, New York, 1946, p. 243, stresses the lack of originality in Nazi antisemitism: “All these demands and views were not remarkable for their originality—they were self-evident in all nationalistic circles; wha wa remarkable was the demagogic and oratorical skill with which they were presented.” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2627

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes the content of antisemitic ideology (unoriginal, standard nationalist fare) from the method (oratory, demagoguery) — a distinction between ideological content and ideological technique that transfers to how any exclusionary discourse operates.
• XREF: The content-vs-method separation feeds the reader’s scaffolding on how ‘common sense’ racist ideas get radicalized through their mode of presentation — a mechanism relevant to Islamophobic discourse. — connects to: Nazi antisemitism derived from existing German social representations; Nazi propaganda blamed Jews for starting the war as a defensive pretext — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 239