Nazi racial policy grew from mainstream scientific rationalism, not fringe pathology

Evidence

The quoted scientists were guided solely by the commonly accepted understanding of the role and mission of science and by feelings of duty towards the vision of a good, healthy, and orderly society. In particular, they were guided by the typically modern and not in the least idiosyncratic conviction that the road to such a society leads through the ultimate taming of the inherently chaotic natural forces and by systematic, and ruthless if need be, execution of a scientifically conceived, rational plan. As was to transpire later, the admittedly unruly and anarchistic Jewry was one of the many weeds which inhabited the plot marked for the carefully designed garden of the future. But there were other weeds as well ~ carriers of congenital diseases, the mentally inferior, the bodily deformed. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 397

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to vault claims about racial formation as a modern scientific project and to ‘racialization’ as classification of populations by supposed value.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 397