“Thinking about all your learnt and read about the Holocaust...... How does a democratic and just society turn to one of hate and genocide? Write a paragraph or two explaining your thoughts.”
Hate and genocide surrounds everyone, where ever you may go. It comes in many different forms but they all have similarities. Take a high school for example, there are many cliques in a school and a distinguished popular crowd that most people look up to and want to be in. The people in that crowd therefore have highest power, they have the power to make anyone hated or bullied or disliked. Anyone wanting to be in that popular group and be accepted by them will tend to agree to whatever opinion anyone in that group may have. It just takes one person of high power to turn people against each other and create a society of hate and genocide.
The same thing happened in World War II, all it took was one person with high power and the world broke into a war, a major war filled with hate and genocide. Comparing a high school to one of the biggest wars our world has seen may seem odd but when you think about it, the ways that Hitler made people turn on the Jews is the same as any popular girl or boy makes their classmates turn on a selected person.
Power is a huge responsibility and when someone uses that power to turn a society to one of hate, well that defeats the purpose. So remember the happenings of WWII, remember how easy it was to wreck a society, and try to keep it from happening again.
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