6 things for you to remember on this Holocaust Remembrance Day:

1. Power allows bad people to be monsters. Hitler on a cul-de-sac is a jerk that ends up getting shot for trespassing. Hitler in government sparks a genocide and plunges the world into war, killing 100s of millions.
2. A disarmed people are a vulnerable people. The first move any oppressor makes before victimizing his target is to rob them of the ability to fight back.

FUN FACT: Hitler didn't pass gun control. He targeted Jews using gun control laws that were passed by the Weimar Republic.
3. The infrastructure they use to oppress others will eventually be used against you.

Many of the concentration camps that were used during the holocaust were built decades prior to hold "enemy civilians" (refugees).

Turns out you can put anyone in a cage once it's built.
4. Oppression and infringements happen steadily over time, sometimes slowly, not all at once.

Hitler started with propaganda against Jews and "degenerates", burning books, removing Jews from civil society, & many other gradual steps before rounding up and mass-murdering anyone.
5. "They would never do that here" is normalcy bias and should be ignored.

German Jews never dreamt that they would be targets for genocide. They were home. That couldn't happen.

Our government has done plenty to demonstrate our lives are disposable to them. Which brings us to:
6. When we say "Never Again", we need to mean it.

Right now, the Pentagon is funding and arming a Saudi-led genocide against the people of Yemen. 100s of thousands have already died, mostly from starvation.

Obama started it.
Trump expanded it.
Biden needs to end it.
The Holocaust, just like the Holodomor, Great Leap Forward, Khmer Rouge, or the Yemeni Genocide, is an example of what happens when the powerful are left unchecked, to do whatever they wish against a disarmed and disenfranchised populace.

It is time for us to end that, for good.
*10s of millions

Between the Holocaust and World War 2, roughly 100 million people died.

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