A Second Letter to my Fellow Patriots
Louise Mirrer, CEO of the New York Historical Society, was interviewed by Smithsonian Magazine on the topic of the Nazi Holocaust. According to her, the most evil and devious strategy used by the Nazis to inspire an entire population to hate an ethnic group wasn’t guns or tanks, it was ACCLIMATIZATION. She talked about how the Nazi strategy in German controlled territories during the 1930s and 1940s was to slowly acclimatize residents to increasingly shocking activities, each outshining the last. A book being burned isn’t nearly as bad as a home being set ablaze, which isn’t nearly as bad as someone being murdered, and so on. They eventually get to a place where atrocities which would have once been appalling, become common place. “You kind of lose the capacity to feel appalled. And then you just believe it,” Mirrer says. “Being exposed to such appalling comparisons over an extended period of time desensitized even the most well-meaning of people, so that compar...

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