“The comforting myth of Nazi Germany is that it happened only because of unprecedented evil men and women. This myth is dangerous because it lets the rest of their society and frankly, the rest of us off the hook. The Holocaust was not carried out only by the truly evil and those who ran the death camps. It was carried out by lawyers who drafted the legal justifications, businessmen who used slave labor, bureaucrats who processed the paperwork, and neighbors who looked away. Hannah Arendt called it the banality of evil because what she witnessed wasn’t exceptional. It was ordinary compliance at a mass scale.
We are watching that compliance now.”
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/somebody-has-to-make-a-start
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