I grew up in a time when World War II was a fresh memory in public consciousness. My father was a WWII vet, a whole generation of war survivors and veterans were alive, rebuilding the world and birthing the baby boomer generation. War related feel-good movie reruns were still a staple of non-prime TV programming, and yet in spite of all of this, the war was not a matter of open discussion. It was below the surface. Perhaps the scars were still new. A universal understanding about the reality of the Holocaust also lay quietly below the surface. It’s still surreal to me to think that hundreds of thousands of people just from my father’s generation one day opened the gates of Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and so many other concentration camps and laid eyes on countless piles of dead and near dead prisoners of the Nazis. It’s only in retrospect that I consider the relative silence to be so strange. Maybe a lot of people wanted to forget.
When the war and the Holocaust was discussed, occasionally at school, I remember thinking: If there was any way we could have a do-over about how we responded to warnings about the holocaust, surely, we’d do it differently. We had plenty of intelligence that it was happening; perhaps we didn’t believe half of what was being heard, although how that could be, I don’t know. But now we knew fully. ‘Never again’; that was the slogan shared by Jews and non-Jews alike, a slogan by the way that I haven’t heard in quite a while. But here we are, a couple generations past the Holocaust, even now, the last few child survivors may still be alive as of this writing, but the resolve is no longer there.
The Nazi Holocaust was followed by yet more, some equally as deadly. Today the world sits and watched China commit genocide against the Uighurs. There are some secondary efforts to boycott China over imprisonment, enslavement, rape and murder of the Uighurs, but the Biden administration response has been tepid at best after an extended period of full denial. Afterall, Biden needs China to underwrite trillions of dollars of woke spending, to bribe the beneficiaries of blues states and cities and to try to build a broader voter base to maintain generational power. For that, the Uighurs are clearly expendable.
Beyond that, the meaning of genocide is being systematically dismantled by academia to justify what would have been unthinkable even a year ago. The left is gradually rebuilding a case to justify ‘security’ acts that seem shockingly like building block components of a genocidal Holocaust. The New York state Senate just approved what appears to be concentrations camps for those that they deem to have evaded Covid measures which of course is really just like a blank check for warrantless incarceration. Covid has been slated as the trigger for a whole list of civil rights violations: forbidding lawful assemblies and protests other than left-approved causes, the abolition of religious gatherings, home detention, curfews. Soon we may see Covid vaccine passports that would be the basis for denial of a whole range of routine services and travel, of course with hearty approval with big business in collusion with the ruling wokeocracy. But ‘genocidal’ you say; isn’t that a wild stretch? All of these civil rights abuses are steppingstones for the next steps.
In the department of forgetfulness, we don’t need to go back to WWII to see the necessary pattern to justify mass homicide against domestic ‘enemies’ of the state. We only need to go back to 1993 to see the siege against the Branch Davidians that resulted in the deaths of 76 people in a military operation that should never have risen above the level of an extended social services call. The Davidian problem was and is roughly equivalent to some complaints made during the pandemic. Add to this that high profile ‘journalist’ which are really just activists on media payroll, are openly advocating for the removal of rights and even incarceration for ‘crimes’ ranging even to voting for Trump; 72 million people needing “reeducation” indeed, the same as the kind visited upon the Uighurs.
Based on this, unless states, cities, and individuals stand up for conservatives and refuse to bend to mass Presidential-endorsed graft such Georgia is now demonstrating over their election laws, otherwise, we’ll see concentration camps and genocide in our lifetime in America.