Sunday was Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The generation that lived through the Holocaust is pretty near gone. Even the ones that remember seeing the numbers tattooed on the arms of Jews are getting old.
Those of you who have only read about the Holocaust or seen movies like Schindler's List, please, please, read up on it. Know what it means. And for the love of whatever Deity or philosophy you subscribe to, know how easy it is for someone like Trump to start up one.
Look at the pictures of the naked corpses piled in heaps, nothing but skin and bones. The boxcars full of Jews heading for the concentration camps. Read about the GI's who liberated the camps and then think about what is happening right here in the United States with Trump separating children from parents, his whipping up hatred for anyone who isn't white, his fear mongering against all immigrants who aren't lily white.
And think about the fact that many countries, including the United States, refused to accept Jewish and other refugees trying to flee the Nazis.
And remember, those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. And don't think it can't happen here! Remember Charlottesville, where Trump told us there were good people on both sides, protestors and Neo-Nazis.
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Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) was a prominent Lutheran pastor in Germany. He emerged as an outspoken public foe of Adolf Hitler and spent the last seven years of Nazi rule in concentration camps. He is perhaps best remembered for his postwar words:
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
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