So on Holocaust Memorial Day 2017, two gifts:
In England, the House of Bishops published a report declaring that gay people shouldn't have all the same rights as straight people.
In the US, Donald Trump signed an executive order banning Muslims from entering that country.
Both of these are banner headlines, both of these statements lack nuance, but both of these things are essentially true.
And both of these things are appropriate gifts for Holocaust Memorial Day, which, after all, reminds us that discrimination and prejudice are timeless evils which we must always battle hard to defeat. They are not about other people in the past. They lie in our own souls, and we cannot afford to point the finger at anyone else.
This is today. This is now.
As Steve Turner said -
History repeats
Itself. Has to.
Nobody listens.
1 comment:
The quote by Steve Turner is very apt. I had not heard it before although I have noted recently how we simply don't seem to learn from history.
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