Social framing of Jews as a vice, not crime, enabled genocidal thoroughness.

Evidence

A crime, moreover, is met with punishment; a vice can only be exterminated. The interpretation given by society to the fact of Jewish birth and the role played by Jews in the framework of social life are intimately connected with the catastrophic thoroughness with which antisemitic devices could be put to work. The Nazi brand of antisemitism had its roots in these social conditions as well as in political circumstances. And though the concept of race had other and more immediately political purposes and functions, its application to the Jewish question in its most sinister aspect owed much of its success to social phenomena and convictions which virtually constituted a consent by public opinion. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 272

Categorization

• XREF: Connects social consent to the Nazi project — a mechanism the Islamophobia field’s hegemony/common-sense vocabulary would parallel.