Can the Holocaust Happen Again?

The Holocaust was arguably one of the most horrific events in the history of our race. The fact that a human being was capable of such terrible things is just incredibly hard to believe. The main reason we do learn about the Holocaust is to keep it from happening again. But it’s hard not to wonder whether simply knowing of the event can really stop somebody from doing something like this a second time around in a country as developed and opportunistic as the United States. Our country is a melting pot of people of many different races, sexualities, and ethnicities. Though this is true, there are prejudices in this country as there are in any other. On September 11th, 2001 an inexplicably tragic incident happened, a series of terrorist attacks were carried out in the New York City and Washington D.C. areas. An Islamic terrorist group carried out the catastrophe that took the lives of almost 3,000 American lives. Obviously this was no small calamity and effected many lives. But, many people were not directly affected by the attacks. Many Muslim-
Americans were the victims of atrocious hate crimes following 9/11. In a window of 6 days after the dreadful event there were 645 bias incidents against Muslims or South Asians mistaken to be Muslim.
These were obviously not justified, innocent Muslim-Amercans were no more responsible for the attacks than the grocer down the street. The hate crimes did not halt after 6 days though, or even a year after the event, Muslims are being blamed by ignorant people for this even today. Only recently an Indian man mistaken for being Muslim was pushed in front of a train. Tragedies like this are continuing to go on and there aren’t any signs of it stopping. The most infuriating part of these occurrences is that they happen under the radar without much media coverage. Sometimes it appears as if Americans value some lives over others. This is extremely disturbing and the lack of sympathy for the