Racial selection radicalizes continuously, expanding its targets over time

Evidence

This constant radicalization of the principle of racial selection can be found in all phases of Nazi policy. Thus, the first to be exterminated were the full Jews, to be followed by those who were half-Jewish and one-quarter Jewish; or first the insane, to be followed by the incurably sick and, eventually, by all families in which there were any “incurably sick.” The “selection which can never stand still” did not stop before the SS itself, either. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2708

Categorization

• DEFINE: Illustrates the mechanism of radicalization inherent in the principle of racial selection — a self-expanding logic that consumes ever-wider categories.
• XREF: Connects to the biopolitics/necropolitics vocabulary Arendt builds toward; the self-consuming selection logic prefigures Nazism’s turning against its own apparatus.