Why would they? Change happens slowly, then all at once. For all of her life she's been a protected class. Why would she ever consider otherwise?
Until things explode and she's in the crosshairs, yeah. She and others like her are going to be oblivious until it's all too late.
Yeah…
Been feeling it for a while, so stating out loud for everyone else’s benefit: I think in a hundred years’ time, genocide scholarship will look
much different than it does now. Not only because of all the genocides yet to happen that’ll make it onto the list, but also because of how the millions of the innocent people who eventually get genocided will belong to groups whose members had a history of causing legitimate trouble in the preceding decades.
If anything, that might make it even worse, since unlike Hitler and his manic hatred of Jews and Slavs, the next generation of genocidal monsters probably
could point to European Muslims founding ISIS-style caliphates as a reason for crushing them completely.
That’s definitely not genocide apologia on my part, to be clear. And it certainly doesn’t make the perpetrators any less evil or their atrocities any less appalling, as it’s still no excuse for all the innocent Muslims (as well as other genocide victims) that they callously massacre and send to the camps. Rather, my point is that when it comes to root causes, I think it’ll be far more evident that their hatred didn’t just come out of thin air and that the worst of it could’ve been avoided, if all parties had agreed to moderate reforms and to work on things they legitimately needed to work on before it was too late.