Sadness is a valid response to this. It IS sad. Germans who were asked after WWII what it was like often said how surprising it was when the Nazis took over. In 1939, most of them didn't see it coming. But there were people who saw it coming and had been sounding the alarm for years leading up to it. The ones who weren't surprised were the ones already feeling threatened in the lead up to concentration camps. The ones no one wanted to listen to. Queer and transnpeople, Jewish people, etc. They were canaries in the coal mine, singing their warning song, and the Germans who wanted to "feel" safe plugged their ears until it was too late.
This is why I left. The thing I feared most wasn't the Christian Nationalists and fascists themselves, it was that we know from history how ordinary people turn their backs on the vulnerable. They don't want to see you get taken away. Better to just close your eyes and pretend everything is fine.
It makes me so sad to read this.
Sadness is a valid response to this. It IS sad. Germans who were asked after WWII what it was like often said how surprising it was when the Nazis took over. In 1939, most of them didn't see it coming. But there were people who saw it coming and had been sounding the alarm for years leading up to it. The ones who weren't surprised were the ones already feeling threatened in the lead up to concentration camps. The ones no one wanted to listen to. Queer and transnpeople, Jewish people, etc. They were canaries in the coal mine, singing their warning song, and the Germans who wanted to "feel" safe plugged their ears until it was too late.
This is why I left. The thing I feared most wasn't the Christian Nationalists and fascists themselves, it was that we know from history how ordinary people turn their backs on the vulnerable. They don't want to see you get taken away. Better to just close your eyes and pretend everything is fine.
Correcting an error above since I can't edit the comment, but it should read 1933, not 1939. Also, while I'm at it... *trans people