Why Is The Holocaust Still Relevant Today

The Holocaust was a hard time where several cruel, unforgivable acts took place. Hitler inflicted the blame of a falling society onto Jewish people; they have taken the blame for many things in the past, and he thought that they would be an easy scapegoat, which they were. Things then escalated, and before long, the Nazis murdered millions of Jews. We look back and think about how horrid it was for people to do something so heinous, but what we don’t realize is that the way we treat others today is not much different. There is still discrimination and terrible things being done to those who are seen as undeserving of respect and compassion, only because they are a minority. There are many lessons that we as a society are still struggling to

I find it odd, and slightly ironic, that the “Golden Rule” is to treat others the way you would want to be treated, yet we never fail to break that rule. The Holocaust is a prime example of extreme discrimination against a specific group. Although we do not execute mass genocide, there is still a plethera of similarities between our world back then and our world today. There are people who want to represent the United States who talk about their unreasonable loathing of certain groups of people, and some of us agree with them! I personally am terrified of something like WWII or the Holocaust repeating itself, and am not in favor of being led by someone who is very bigoted. Back in the times of WWII, everything got blamed on the Jews (and a few other minorities we targeted); not unlike our society where people tend to blame some minorites for things they may not have any control over (like how some incriminate all Muslims for attacks that ISIS have