Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊Nov 9, 2024
“Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore." - AR Moxon
Show thread3bomcNov 9, 2024
@brucelawson
"Nobody cares about their motives anymore."
That is precisely why we will have to live it again and again.
Show threadSam T GerbNov 9, 2024

@3bomc @brucelawson

I think there is truth to both points. As Bruce points out, there should be no harbor for those complicit in an atrocity.

But if one fails to understand the motives of the masses that allowed it and helped proliferate, by conflating them with the few that initiated and actively committed atrocities, as 3bomc points out, we are bound to repeat it.

This difference in motives may be a critical consideration in the path to averting it next time.

Show threadBruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊
@gerb_sam yes, this rings true to me. @3bomc
Nov 9, 2024 at 11:26amWeb