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At some point before this happened, I imagine somebody very calmly told somebody else "don't take Hitler so literally, your kind of alarmist warnings about things that will never happen alienate people and create the REAL danger." https://twitter.com/AuschwitzMuseum/status/1322327494750601216
At some point before this happened I imagine somebody wrote a very dispassionate opinion piece about how economically anxious German citizens weren't actually motivated by hate, and what's truly necessary is to understand THEIR pain. https://twitter.com/AuschwitzMuseum/status/1322297394235662338?s=20
At some point before this happened, somebody probably pointed out that by calling Nazi rhetoric bigoted and dangerous and hateful, you really are making it hard for Nazis to be redeemed. https://twitter.com/AuschwitzMuseum/status/1322267226611896325?s=20
At some point before this happened, somebody worried out loud that something like this would happen, and was told "don't be ridiculous, that could never happen." https://twitter.com/AuschwitzMuseum/status/1322237344934776835?s=20
Some time before this, and for many days after, millions of people told themselves "this isn't happening," right up until the moment they finally had to say "nobody could have known this would happen." https://twitter.com/AuschwitzMuseum/status/1322176700407533574?s=20
I'd like to say "hi" to everybody who has told me I've been overreacting the last five years or so.
I see you.
I see you.
It strikes me as plainly true, that the most pernicious holocaust denial happens before the holocaust, not after.
