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 On Mon, 4 Aug 2025 18:18:31 +0100, "billy bookcase"  wrote: 
  
 >The whole point about the Holocaust, is that it all seems so unlikely. 
 >That one of the most civilised countries in Europe could, within the 
 >space of  just 15 years start systematically murdering 6 million 
 >people,  whether Jewish or not. 
  
 I posted this on Facebook on Holocaust Memorial Day a few years ago: 
  
 On Holocaust Memorial Day, it's important to remember that the Holocaust 
 didn't start with gas chambers. It started with a creeping disregard for 
 human rights. With a growing belief that some people are of less value than 
 "us". That it's OK to use violence against "them". That "they" don't deserve 
 the protection of the law. That the state should protect normal, upstanding 
 people like "us" from "them". That "they" don't belong in civilised society. 
 And, eventually, the belief that "they" should be got rid of. 
  
 The Holocaust was the culmination of that process, not its genesis. It 
 didn't happen because "they" were evil. It happened because "we" didn't 
 realise that, inch by imperceptible inch, "we" were becoming evil. 
  
 And it can happen for any value of "we", and any value of "them". 
  
 https://www.facebook.com/markgoodge/posts/pfbid0rPyHMGNqqUdLZ9z4 
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 The point being that ordinary people didn't realise that they were becoming 
 the problem, rather than other people being the problem. And by the time 
 they may have started to realise, it was too late. 
  
 Of course, Mitchell and Webb made a similar point in a much more humorous 
 way: 
  
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK-kWRAVmRU 
  
 Mark 
  
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