Broken Windows Thuggery

(Opinion) They came to smash windows, brutalize members of groups they scapegoat for the nation’s woes, haul them away to cruel detention camps, set the stage for mass round-ups. That’s what mobs did in Germany in 1938 in the violent Kristallnacht window-smashing pogrom that set the stage for the Holocaust. We hold events every year so we won’t forget what happened and repeat the past. We held one such event last Sunday to mark the anniversary. Meanwhile, a new mob of masked lawless scapegoating xenophobes continued smashing windows in New Haven this week to remind us … that we need to be reminded. In hopes that we can prevent history from not just echoing but repeating itself.

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