Prejudice is neither necessary nor sufficient for genocide

Evidence

There are unwanted strangers in any society, and in any society there are some people who wish such strangers not to be there; but it is not in any society that a genocide of the unwanted strangers can take place. The presence of a quantity of Jew-haters is not the only, not even a necessary, and certainly not a sufficient condition needing to be met to make that genocide a possibility. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 702

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to the Islamophobia readings: the presence of anti-Muslim prejudice is not the decisive condition for mass exclusion. — connects to: Intense Nazi indoctrination failed to override conventional, nonracial loyalties; Genocide is creative weeding, not destructive hatred — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 268; Heterophobia and boundary anxieties do not directly cause genocide. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 232 (+10 more)
• ADDENDUM: Parallels the ‘sacrifice’ argument that large-scale social horror requires a stability-producing structure, not just a preference.

Related

• Majority ambivalence toward Jews, not indifference, enabled genocide (similarity 0.86)
• Heterophobia and boundary anxieties do not directly cause genocide. (similarity 0.85)
• Intense Nazi indoctrination failed to override conventional, nonracial loyalties (similarity 0.85)
• Antisemitism alone cannot explain or produce genocide. (similarity 0.84)
• Inferiority alone cannot justify genocide; danger claims are required (similarity 0.83)
• Public indifference, not hatred, greased the machinery of genocide (similarity 0.83)
• Popular hatred was insufficient to drive the Holocaust (similarity 0.83)
• Traditional antisemitism negatively correlates with willingness to perpetrate genocide (similarity 0.82)
• Genocide is a normal potential of modernity, not its malfunction. (similarity 0.82)
• Prejudice scales cannot measure readiness to participate in genocide. (similarity 0.81)
• Genocide’s moral invisibility recruits far more participants than conscience-stifling does (similarity 0.81)
• Antisemitism acted as a catalyst for Nazi rule, world war, and genocide (similarity 0.80)
• The absence of active anti-anti-Semitism enabled complicity with genocide. (similarity 0.80)
• Holocaust perpetrators were ordinary citizens acting without personal anti-Jewish resentment. (similarity 0.80)
• Modern society’s own attributes can enable holocaust-style genocide, not just racial prejudice. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Heterophobia and boundary anxieties do not directly cause genocide. #corroborates (0.92) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 232
• Genocide is creative weeding, not destructive hatred #corroborates (0.90) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 268
• Popular hatred was insufficient to drive the Holocaust #corroborates (0.88) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 212
• Traditional antisemitism negatively correlates with willingness to perpetrate genocide #corroborates (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 521
• Genocide required replacing collective rage with bureaucratic obedience #corroborates (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 260
• Genocide’s moral invisibility recruits far more participants than conscience-stifling does #corroborates (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 96
• Civility coordinated the genocide and prompted bystander passivity rather than resistance #corroborates (0.78) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 320
• Public indifference, not hatred, greased the machinery of genocide #responds-to (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 215
• Racism is a hegemonic practice that is articulated with, not necessary to, capitalist formations #expands (0.75)