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news came about the liquidation of the Lublin ghetto. Since a few months before, when the serious “slip-up” of Celek and many others in Piotrkow and Lublin took place, communications with the groups outside the ghetto were almost non-existent. The Warsaw ghetto, lacking direct contacts with the outside, received these latest reports with skepticism too. People gave many reasons to refute the remotest possibility of similar acts of violence, refused to accept the thought that a similar murder could possibly be committed in Poland’s capital where 300,000 Jews dwelled. People argued with one another and tried to convince others and themselves that “even the Germans would not murder hundreds of thousands of people without any reason whatever, particularly in times when they were in such need of productive power…” A normal human being with normal mental processes was simply unable to conceive that a difference in the colour of eyes or hair or different racial origin might be sufficient causes for murder.

Marek Edelman writing about the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw in 1942.

Of course, nothing like that could happen here and the consequences of decades of hate radio and Fox inflaming paranoia and hostility while dehumanizing “liberals” will not be serious. Right?