Bigotry: Adolf Hitler
"Don't buy from Jews" & "A good German doesn't buy from Jews" - Jews were made to carry those signboards Bigotry rarely begins with violence. It begins with certainty. The certainty that I am right . The certainty that the other is wrong . And finally, the most dangerous of all, that the other does not deserve to exist as equal . After World War I, Germany was left humiliated, wounded, and searching for meaning. Into this fragile psyche of a nation stepped Adolf Hitler, not merely as a politician, but as a storyteller. The narrative he offered was dangerously simple. Germany is a great nation, a great race, with a glorious ancient past, but now betrayed. Your suffering has a cause and that cause has a face. The face, Hitler told the Germans, was the Jew. What Hitler said was not really new. The Germans did have problems with the Jews. But what Hitler did with those problems was new: he transmuted prejudice into purpose. And thus bigotry became a pu...
