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Originally Posted by Oberon

I think today should be a day for not just remembering the barbarity of the Holocaust, but a lesson of what gross generalisation of a subset of people can lead to, the sort of propaganda against the Jews put out by the Third Reich that helped turn peoples mindsets against the Jewish people.
It was insiduous, and as a warning from history we need to always be vigilant not to let the same things happen again, against anyone, be they Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Homosexual, Female, Transgender, Eastern European Immigrant, or African-American. The moment you start generalising people by a set subculture, the moment you tar all of these people with one brush, that's the first step on a long walk to Dachau.
People may think I'm trying to hijack a commemoration of a horrendous event for a political agenda...well, honestly that's nonsense, politics has nothing to do with it, compassion and human decency has more to do with it, and a desperate hope that we can all learn from what happened, why we commemorate this day, to remember what happened so that we may never let it happen here again.

No, you're not hijacking the commemoration of the event. What you wrote is precisely why we need to remember.
During this commemoration, let's also remember the American internment camps for those of Japanese descent. Those in themselves were a step away from Dachau.