Purges weaponize guilt by association to sever all social and family bonds

Evidence

Any force or event that is placed between the subject and the consequences of shocking the victim, will lead to a reduction of strain on the participant and thus lessen disobedience. In modern society others often stand between us and the final destructive act to which we contribute. … Indeed, mediating the action, splitting the action between stages delineated and set apart by the hierarchy of authority, and cutting the action across through functional specialization is one of the most salient and proudly advertised achievements of our rational society. The meaning of Milgram’s discovery is that, immanently and irretrievably, the process of rationalization facilitates behaviour that is inhuman and cruel in its consequences, if not in its intentions. The more rational is the organization of action, the easier it is to cause suffering - and remain at peace with oneself. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 441 (#expands, via linked claim)

The assumption that Islam is monolithic easily lends itself to the guilt-by-association principle at work in the campaign to label Obama a Muslim and in much of the Islamophobic discourse one finds in the West. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 55 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Rationalized social organization structurally enables cruelty by mediating responsibility — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 441; Rationalized social relationships increase the efficiency of producing inhumanity — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 436; Monolithic Islam assumptions enable guilt-by-association targeting — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 55 (+3 more)

Related

• Rationalized social organization structurally enables cruelty by mediating responsibility (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Rationalized social organization structurally enables cruelty by mediating responsibility #expands (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 441
• Totalitarian attribution of all subordinates’ acts to the leader enables scapegoating anyone. #exemplifies (0.85)
• Monolithic Islam assumptions enable guilt-by-association targeting #exemplifies (0.82) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 55
• Rationalized social relationships increase the efficiency of producing inhumanity #expands (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 436
• The Criminal Tribes Acts labeled whole hereditary groups as criminal. #exemplifies (0.80)
• Collective shaming discipline is psychologically violent though non-corporal #expands (0.75) — , The Rod and the Child, 5618