Today is Holocaust Memorial Day. It is
sometimes thought it could never happen again, it was the act
of a few hardline dedicated madmen.
Sadly it was not, when the SS
followed the Army in the conquest
of Latvia, Estonia, Belarus and Lithuania, in
over a few months well over 250,000 jews were dead.
This was not done by a few dedicated SS brutes but by many local groups
who enthusiastically followed the SS lead. This is still to be acknowledged by those
countries. To acknowledge the evil that was done is the beginning stopping it
happening again.
It is also important to see the steps that lead to Holocaust
and to be able to recognise them in the world today. Modi in India is slowly but
surely demonising the Indian muslims.
Israel becoming even more extreme in the treatment of its Arab population.
The UK in the appalling treatment of the
Windrush generation and its demonising of asylum seekers.
All it needs is the silence of good people to allow the
little things to pass and the bigger things become easier and soon you are looking
into the abyss of the war in Ukraine. Here
like the rise of the Nazi state, little truths and big lies are slowly mixed into
false narratives of how we stand strong against the evils of degenerate values.
The shared values between Hitlers Germany and Putin’s Russia
(and Trump’s America) include anti-gay, anti-semitic, anti-liberal values with a return to a mythic homeland and nosensical Christian Nationalist narrative - A holy Germany , holy
mother Russia, MAGA Then suddenly it seems easy in the deluded mind to do the unthinkable, to invade Ukraine, to kill millions of people because they were Roma, gay, disabled, Jewish, to seek to to over throw democracy in the name of democracy
The only defence aginst this darkness, is to keep loving, to keep caring, to hurt and accept vulnerability. Do not
to keep silent, when you attract rage against “being woke”, be happy, you are hurting them. Woke is aterm we must welcome, how can it be wrong to be awake. How can it be right to sleepwalk into the many hells we humans have built in our past?
