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Huh? It definitely can be. Without necessarily talking about any particular groups, it’s easy to see how that could work: Imagine a hypothetical genetic effect that makes someone more prone to any combination of things like anger, paranoia, violence, and/or impulsive actions, and then imagine they adopt an ideology that tells them a certain group of people are bad and responsible for bad things in that person’s life. The genetic component gives them the wherewithal, the ideology gives the target.
Alternatively, imagine someone prone to violence who adopts an ideology that tells them a certain group of people are their kinsmen/friends/allies. Would they not be more likely to control themselves around that group of people?
This seems to be the origin story of David Wood. Dude is a genuine psychopath who attacked his father with a hammer but then found Jesus and became a devout Christian who warns others about the evils of Islam. I still think there's a really important component of religion that gets overlooked in that it imposes an authority figure onto the population that is beyond their reach. It's one thing to overthrow a king, that can be done, it's something else entirely to overthrow the divine.
If it's genetic, they're not going to be able to control themselves around any group of people. That means that even if a target demographic receives much of the fury, it won't change the fact that a well-placed slight will incur similar wrath even from an in-group, even from family.