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As horror stories about our treatment of adults, children, and babies at America’s border concentration camps continue to emerge, I’m reminded of this quote from Elie Wiesel, a Jewish Holocaust survivor who spent years in Nazi concentration camps. (1/6) 
Just as so many Americans now look away from the wicked human rights abuses that are being carried out in our name, so, too, did Germans in the 1930s—and that enabled the escalation of the Nazi atrocities, which began with separating families and concentration camps,... (2/6)
...but ended with death camps in which millions of innocent human beings were gassed, marched to the ovens, and otherwise murdered through neglect, malnourishment, and the spread of disease. (3/6)
If #NeverAgainIsNow, we are already several steps down a path like that of the Shoah. And our indifference will only allow this wickedness to progress further. (4/6)
Jews in Nazi Germany were human beings. So, too, are the migrant refugees and their children who we are now treating so badly that, were they dogs, their facilities would be raided and those responsible for the abuse jailed. #ClosetheCamps (5/6)
Our government and the people in charge dehumanize migrant refugees—children and adults alike—every single day, and it’s up to us to stand strong against that.
The opposite of love is not hate—it’s indifference.
#DontLookAway #NeverAgain (6/6)
The opposite of love is not hate—it’s indifference.
#DontLookAway #NeverAgain (6/6)
