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Denise Dewald, MD 🗽

23 Oct, 8 tweets, 2 min read

What is evil?

The crowd of antivaxxers/antimaskers/covid-denialists don't seem to actually understand this.

So I am going to start a thread for people to tell their family's personal experiences with real evil.

I will start. *Warning - this is horrifying stuff.*

My husband is from China. His mother was 12 years old when the Communists entered her village. She was forced to watch the Communists execute her father and uncle for the "crime" of being landowners.

His parents were sent to "re-education" camps for several years starting when he was a toddler. He was cared for by relatives.

My mother grew up in Nazi Germany. She was a Christian girl in a small farming village, so she was relatively safe.

A Soviet POW escaped and was caught by some men in her village. They cut his penis off and let him bled to death. They were never punished.

When Hamburg was on fire from Allied bombing, her father brought her to a local hill to see the glow on the horizon. Soon refugees started streaming into the village, desperate for food. She watched from her yard, not understanding. She was 6 years old.

nationalgeographic.com/history/articl…

A man begged her for the sandwich that she was eating, offering to trade it for a bar of soap. She was frozen with terror.

She was ashamed for the rest of her life that she didn't give the man her sandwich.

Unexploded munitions were scattered all over the countryside. Children found them and got blown up. Three children in her village were killed when they found an unexploded bomb in the stream running through the village.

So when people talk about using violence and starting a civil war over "evil" vaccine and mask mandates, I am pretty sure that they don't know what "evil" really means.

They clearly have no idea about the evil that violence unleashes.

Let's explain it to them.

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