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> It just seemed to me like, “Well some people don’t like other people.” I didn’t even realize it was against the Jews. This is one of the most fascinating par

by mikrl 4y ago

> It just seemed to me like, “Well some people don’t like other people.” I didn’t even realize it was against the Jews. This is one of the most fascinating parts of the Nazi rise to power to me. The sheer mundanity of it all. So many questions. - what events today seem like ‘not a big deal’ but will go down in history like kristalnacht? - Hitler is a byword for evil now, but at the time he was just another mundane talking head. We remember him as a frothing monster, but he was just a man, nothing special: Bavarian postmaster. Which talking head alive today will carry that legacy? - Could it have been prevented? How do you stop the mundane effectively? Is it happening right now? Could we even tell?

AnnikaL 4y ago
Not really an event, but I think factory farming may be seen as an overlooked evil in the future.
- leoh 4y ago
  I so hope it will
kmos17 4y ago
Look out for anyone dehumanizing and demonizing whole groups of people, especially when it is people with political power doing that. That is the common thread, the one that allows entire populations to be conditioned to accept violence against groups of other people just because of ethnic or political differences. Could it have been prevented at the time? I highly doubt it, what the nazis did was push to the extreme and industrialize what many European nations had been doing already for centuries. Socially the concept of universal human rights was still very recent and not widely accepted. Yes we can tell, and it is happening right now, the warning signs are in plain sight. Look at the rise of right wing extremism in the United States, resulting in increasing numbers of terrorist attacks. It has been directly enabled by the language used in political discourse and what it has rendered permissible. Can it be prevented now from getting worse? Time will tell, but at least the election results from yesterday show that there is yet some hope. One should not be complacent though, the Nazis never achieved more than 30 some percent in open elections before they completely took over.

by mikrl 4y ago

AnnikaL 4y ago

Not really an event, but I think factory farming may be seen as an overlooked evil in the future.

leoh 4y ago
I so hope it will

kmos17 4y ago

Look out for anyone dehumanizing and demonizing whole groups of people, especially when it is people with political power doing that. That is the common thread, the one that allows entire populations to be conditioned to accept violence against groups of other people just because of ethnic or political differences. Could it have been prevented at the time? I highly doubt it, what the nazis did was push to the extreme and industrialize what many European nations had been doing already for centuries. Socially the concept of universal human rights was still very recent and not widely accepted. Yes we can tell, and it is happening right now, the warning signs are in plain sight. Look at the rise of right wing extremism in the United States, resulting in increasing numbers of terrorist attacks. It has been directly enabled by the language used in political discourse and what it has rendered permissible. Can it be prevented now from getting worse? Time will tell, but at least the election results from yesterday show that there is yet some hope. One should not be complacent though, the Nazis never achieved more than 30 some percent in open elections before they completely took over.