In as much as a stereotype is elevated to scapegoat status, to a group made responsible for something heinous, the range and intensity of hate rhetoric escalates commensurably. In most cases the anatomy of hatred in the context of genocide has not been given sufficient attention. The word is often used in its popular form and not as a technical term, as an integral concept in the psychology of genocide, as a word having a very precise specificity. Similarly, hate synonymous with burning rage is assumed, as if extreme emotions were a constant in the execution of genocide, when common sense should tell one of the impossibility of sustained intense feeling, whether joy or despair, or passion and hate. A lynch-mob mentality has no place in genocidal thought.
Genocide requires cold, calculated planning and administration.
There is no room for the ebb and flow of emotional behavior. This fundamental distinction was best embodied in the struggle between the SA and the SS who held bitterly opposed alternative approaches toward the reconstruction of Germany according to National Socialist racial doctrine. What is centrally operative in state-induced genocide is not emotional hate but cerebral hatred. Antisemitism feeds off structural antipathies, some of them genocidal. The latter has a short life-span, whereas the former contains a more permanent characteristic.