"The world’s #Holocaust remembrance practices and rituals are predicated on the idea that, by exposing people to what happened in the darkest human-made night of the early 1940s, we would inoculate new generation after new generation against the temptations of #extremism. The uncomfortable possibility we must now confront is that this assumption no longer holds. Under conditions of widespread fear and existential anxiety, #Holocaustremembrance as it is currently practiced does not appear to prevent extremism and, in some cases, may reinforce the very dynamics it was meant to forestall.What we collectively failed to see is that in times of existential anxiety, exposure to a flood of dramatic images and descriptions of death, suffering, and horrors does not necessarily expand people’s moral sensitivity to suffering and evil."https://www.timesofisrael.com/surprisingly-holocaust-ceremonies-foster-extremism-not-empathy/