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🗣️” And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor” - Elie Wiesel’s speech "The Perils of Indifference" delivered April 1999, White House, Washington, D.C.

Let’s be the change we wish to see in the world. In these challenging times, apathy has no place.👇🏾

https://mas.to/@Fitnessfoundry/113878252059365703

@Strandjunker I'm one to lean toward the Holocaust starting with "On the Jew and his Lies" by Martin Luther, the founder of Lutheranism.

Have a read. Wonderful work from a very loving devotee of God willing to stand against power for what's right and true. You'll find a recipe in there. Steps that should be taken to make the world a better, more Godly, and more loving place.

I guess it's contested, but it seems pretty obvious to me that the Nazis knew this work and followed it.

Religion.

@Strandjunker It started when people were desperate and turned to someone who went after the easy targets, the same targets that had been targeted for two millennia.

It kept going when Jews thought, "Oh, it won't happen here."

Thought, "They're my neighbor! I work with them, I grew up playing with them!"

Thought, "I served in the army! I contribute to society, I have nothing they could go after me for!"

Thought, "My neighbors won't kill me the first chance they get! We're modern!"

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This is the lesson our children must be taught - they may not hear about the holocaust but they must understand that it always starts with the demonisation of a group of people whom politicians seize upon to hide their own failings #holocaust #fascism #ReformParty

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The orange fascist #Trump gives me a deja-vu 😬

@Strandjunker I never read Hannah Arendt's book on totalitarianism and the banality of evil. Seems relevant. I also have a book by Horkheimer and Adorno, I think, called Dialectic of the Enlightenment... haven't started it.

There is a clear continuation between colonialism and concentration camps for indigenous people. Like the atrocities in the Congo Free State, like the atlantic slave trade...

I agree as to where it did not begin. Not sure about the rest.

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Remember indeed, because that is how fascism works…

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The Holocaust wasn't *only* about Jews, nor were they the only, or even the most numerous, victims. The first to actually die were disabled people, but the Holocaust itself started with the burning of books.

"One of the institutions ransacked by the Nazi student groups that organized the book burnings was the Institute for Sexual Research (Institut für Sexualwissenschaft). Founded by the pioneering sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld, the institute was the first medical center devoted to the study of gender and sexuality. At the institute, trans patients received gender-affirming care, activists campaigned for the rights of queer Germans and doctors conducted research on gender-affirming procedures — much of which was lost forever in the book burnings."

https://forward.com/culture/549587/trans-book-burning-library-gay-pride/

@Strandjunker Hope you don't mind i rephrased your words:

Remember.
Fight intolerance and hate speech.
Care, and don't turn a blind eye to injustice.
Beware if states start ..

I. Classification
ii. Symbolization
iii. Discrimination
iv. Dehumanization
v. Organization
vi. Polarization
vii. Preparation
viii. Persecution
​ix. Extermination
x. Denial

source: https://www.genocidewatch.com/tenstages

https://www.genocidewatch.com/single-post/genocide-is-never-justifiable-israel-and-hamas-in-gaza