Segregation into ghettos looked moderate next to expulsion or massacre.

Evidence

Hostility against Jews led to massacres and, in the fifteenth century, to expulsions, including most famously, the expulsion from Spain of 1492. In this context, when there was a reassertion of the policy of segregating Jews in enclosed areas, it appeared to be a moderate course of action, somewhere between death or expulsion and acceptance. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2371

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘moderate option between exclusionary extremes’ logic echoes the sacrifice article’s framing of brutal public practices as stabilizers within stratified orders.
• DEEPTHINKING: The moral-arithmetic of confinement-as-kindness — that enclosure could be framed as merciful relative to worse alternatives — is a dense paradox worth sitting with.