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Way back when (none / 0) (#71)
by Fabian on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 03:54:10 PM EST
my mom went back to college for her bachelor's and took a course on the Holocaust.  I read some of her books and saw the pictures.  They were horrific.  Later on I read Maus which is a more personal view.  Eventually I ran across the psychology/sociology experiments that divided subjects into "prisoners" and "guards".  

I take "Never again!" to mean more than genocide.  Genocide is just the final step in a whole series of steps.  It's not the last steps we fight against, but the first steps that make the last ones possible - torture, rendition and anything that takes away our rights.

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Absolutely Agree (none / 0) (#74)
by daring grace on Thu Jul 24, 2008 at 01:06:59 PM EST
I think the death camps serve to remind us of the extreme, but inevitable outcomes that occur when we let 'little' things' start to slide.

Our vigilance has to be constant and our engagement against creeping repression and cruelty continually vigorous.

Sometimes in the last few years it has seemed so (frighteningly) easy for Americans to be ambivalent in the face of previously unthinkable practices like torture and suspensions of constitutional rights.

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