What can we learn from the story of the Jewish holocaust?
"The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.”
∼ Hamza Yusuf
Whether it be government, religion, terror or others seeking power such as presidential candidates, it is manufactured narratives they use to incite intolerance and fear into your heart where they can convince you to kill each other.
"The only real way to disarm your enemy is to [...] hear them out."
By implanting and reinforcing this idea of otherness into you they create imaginary enemies for you to hate.
The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different [...] allows for all the other great evils: racism, sexism, homophobia
∼ Anna Quindlen