Neighbors

History Shows the Tipping Point for Mass Murder is Closer Than You Might Think

Jewish children with their school teachers in Jedwabne, Poland, 1933. (Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons).

It has always rings hollow to me when people are accused of “inhumanity” when they partake in organized murder.

Dehumanization is a very human phenomenon. We choose who of our kind must be relegated out of it. It starts in the denial of the full humanness of a people, lurking in…