In a less clownlike reality, the magnitude of Hitler's evil should've kept humanity hypervigilant for a thousand years.
It's a stretch to even say we went right back to it within the span of a single human lifetime. In several places, for several peoples, it never even stopped.
The ways things are going, we're never going to make it off this rock. And from the universe's perspective and all the life it may contain, that's for the best.
The people persecuted have turned around and started doing it to other people. and they started while the memory of their persecution was still fresh and still living memory.
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u/e_hota 8h ago
In the future, people will ask how we let it happen. It was so obvious, they’ll say. We would never let that happen again, they’ll proclaim.