When people talk about the Holocaust they often wonder how the socio-political climate got to a place where the world could allow 11 million people to be treated as disposable. "How could they have let this happen?" or "Why did they let it go so far?" they say.
We hear that cliché "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it" so often that it really doesn't mean a damn thing anymore but still, I'm reminded of it when I see a story like this one reporting on how some Americans are taking the immigration debate into their own hands. (Choice bit: One by one, opponents of illegal immigration have been sending lawmakers real, red bricks with angry messages written on the side: "Build a wall. Deport them all.")
I'm not reactionary enough to truly believe that these are the first steps down a path that leads to mass exterminations, but where exactly does it lead?
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