we’ve been studying the holocaust in kittengarten and our teacher asked us to think about how a society could find itself doing something like that.
so, i said “i think probably kinda like this.”
then she gave me an A and let me take the rest of the day off…
It took Covid for me to realize that the Nazis were not an aberration. Neither were the Salem Witch Trials. Or the Inquisition.
They were the historical norm.
No coercion at all! Everybody has a choice! If you don't want to sleep with the boss, just find a new job!