The Holocaust is a product of modern rational society, not a Jewish problem alone

Evidence

The Holocaust was indeed a Jewish tragedy. Though Jews were not the only population subjected to a ‘special treatment’ by the Nazi regime (six million Jews were among more than 20 million people annihilated at Hitler’s behest), only the Jews had been marked for total destruction, and allotted no place in the New Order that Hitler intended to install. Even so, the Holocaust was not simply a Jewish problem, and not an event in Jewish history alone. The Holocaust was born and executed in our modern rational society, at the high stage of our civilization and at the peak of human cultural achievement, and for this reason it is a problem of that society, civilization and culture. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 21

Categorization

• XREF: This is the core thesis that scaffolds the rest of the book and feeds directly into Islamophobia readings about how exclusionary projects are products of modernity rather than eruptions of atavism. — connects to: The Holocaust must be read as integral to modernity, not as its aberration. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 630; The Holocaust was a product of modern civilization, not merely its failure — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 256; The Holocaust was a product of modernity, not pre-modern barbarity. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 82 (+10 more)
• SEED: An essay angle: how “modern rational society” produced the Holocaust sets up a parallel argument for how modern bureaucratic rationality produces Islamophobic exclusion as a normal, system-internal function rather than an aberration.

Related

• The Holocaust was a product of modernity, not pre-modern barbarity. (similarity 0.93)
• The Holocaust combined long-festering social tensions with the rational instruments modernity created (similarity 0.90)
• The Holocaust must be read as integral to modernity, not as its aberration. (similarity 0.90)
• The Holocaust is a by-product of runaway modernist design (similarity 0.88)
• Modernity’s institutions actively enabled and supplied the Holocaust (similarity 0.87)
• The Holocaust reveals civilization’s capacity for industrialized destruction as inseparable from its progress. (similarity 0.86)
• The Holocaust functions as a laboratory test revealing modernity’s hidden capacities. (similarity 0.85)
• The Holocaust was a product of modern civilization, not merely its failure (similarity 0.85)
• All Holocaust scholarship is ultimately a debate over modernity’s self-image. (similarity 0.85)
• Modern civilization was a necessary but not sufficient condition of the Holocaust. (similarity 0.85)
• The Holocaust resulted from distinctly modern social and political conditions (similarity 0.84)
• Every ingredient enabling the Holocaust was normal for modern civilization (similarity 0.84)
• Normalizing the Holocaust as one genocide among many also defuses its challenge to sociology (similarity 0.84)
• The Holocaust was rational social management in scientific dress (similarity 0.84)
• Genocide is a normal potential of modernity, not its malfunction. (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• The Holocaust was a product of modern civilization, not merely its failure #corroborates (0.95) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 256
• The Holocaust was a product of modernity, not pre-modern barbarity. #corroborates (0.95) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 82
• The Holocaust combined long-festering social tensions with the rational instruments modernity created #expands (0.92) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 32
• The Holocaust is a possibility modernity contains, not its paradigm #qualifies (0.90) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 49
• Modernity’s institutions actively enabled and supplied the Holocaust #expands (0.90) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 251
• Modern civilization was a necessary but not sufficient condition of the Holocaust. #qualifies (0.88) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 71
• The Holocaust exemplifies modern bureaucratic rationality applied to maximum-efficiency ends. #exemplifies (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 425
• The Holocaust demonstrated how to liquidate minority and statelessness problems #expands (0.80)