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In the beginning, it was the promise of bread and jam that brought Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Umschlagplatz, the deportation site to Treblinka.
Of course the situations are not exactly the same. But if you are waiting for them to be exactly the same, you are missing the point of learning from history. Each detail of atrocity should be remembered as an alarm for decent people. We can't forget and we can't fail.
Some of us have reached a point where we just roll our eyes at every Nazi comparison.
Do so at your own peril. Do we need to actually fire up gas chambers so the comparisons feel real to you?
Wonderful said! We shouldn’t wait for situations to be exactly same before we take actions against such atrocities.
Sadly, I don't think people are forgetting. I just think they don't know. Our enemy is an idolized past of those who cant seem to find a place anymore. Ironically, those who remain ignorant about the brutality of the our past, do it by choice.
It's not clear when we've passed the event horizon towards atrocity. Perhaps we already have.
We make the mistake of thinking it was obvious to the Germans of the 30’s (when it wasn’t) so *obviously* we’ll know it when we see it (when most of us have never seriously studied fascism). Thus we blithely make the same errors. :-(
The one thing that is prevalent in this and so many other threads like it but rarely discuss is apathy. The atrocities of our global past are such that we tend to miss the causality. Before or during each historical humanitarian blemish were people who could have acted but didn't
I think people are more oblivious, or ignorant, than apathetic. Most people are don't understand the mechanics of fascism. It leads them to misreading the situation. They are largely unaware of the meaning of clues so they are blind to the reality of the changes taking place.
Where we, human kind, fail is, I think, less in our ignorant perpetuation of past wrongs but rather it is our seeming inability to act on humanities behalf when the present calls on us to do so. Humanity's failing to date is a product of apathy. Just act when you know it's right.
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