Perverted tolerance of vices can flip into liquidating all racially predestined persons

Evidence

“Punishment is the right of the criminal,” of which he is deprived if (in the words of Proust) “judges assume and are more inclined to pardon murder in inverts and treason in Jews for reasons derived from …racial predestination.” It is an attraction to murder and treason which hides behind such perverted tolerance, for in a moment it can switch to a decision to liquidate not only all actual criminals but all who are “racially” predestined to commit certain crimes. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 258

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The mechanism here is dense and paradigm-shifting: tolerance and liquidation are shown as two faces of the same refusal to treat the person as a responsible agent. Once wickedness is inherent rather than chosen, society’s ‘forgiveness’ and its ‘extermination’ rest on the same premise.
• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s Islamophobia module — how tolerant ‘understanding’ of cultural/religious difference can invert into exclusionary logic built on presumed inherent traits.