This is the article I've been wanting to read.

When I was 12 my class learned all about the holocaust and nazi Germany. We learned all about how hate was taught, but also integrated into thousands of years of history.

Now, I am not Jewish, never have been, never will be. But it doesn't take a Jewish person to be appalled or horrified the treatment of people in the holocaust. We can have empathy for others.

I remember my teacher talking about how Jewish people were dehumanized, through humor, and other means. I remember her telling us:

"Pay close attention, because one day in your life you may see the same dehumanizing tactics used against another group. You have to ask yourself if you want to automatically go along with the group, vs, refuse to participate in this hate and othering."

She explained how subtle it was, how ingrained to the background culture to dehumanize other groups. I did pay close attention.

Years later, my university held a TDOR (transgender day of remembrance) where they displayed tombstones on campus, each one had a story of a trans person who had been murdered for being trans. There were even stories of a trans person who had a heart attack, but the EMT people stopped working on them when they realized the person was trans, and instead stood around laughing as the trans woman died in front of them. I then realized this same things was happening. Somehow it was considered okay for trans people to die because they were not considered human. I realized the time my teacher had told me would come had come. Every year there are hate crime against trans people, that often end in them dying.

It also came in hearing about more African Americans die in the American health system than white people. How black children who are kidnapped get less publicity and outrage than white children, how black people have lower life expectancies.

It comes in other ways as well.

I will never forget that lesson on the holocaust, how going along with the status quo can easily contribute to hat, dehumanization, and genocide.

Thank you for making the connection here. A lot of people seem to think I am over reacting when I compare here.

I think it also stands to be mentioned, that in addition to jewish people, trans people, gay, lesbians, and other queer folks were sent to the death camps during WW2.

Yet I've heard people call trans supporters called "nazis" for being militant in their beliefs that trans people should be tolerated in society. I find that comparison very offensive. Transphones have way more in common with nazis than trans supporters do.