“The Jews are undoubtedly a race, but they are not human” - Adolf Hitler ( epigraph in Maus)

This sickens me and makes me think of the lie of race in our world. The Jewish people simply had a different culture and ethnicity from the Germans. Hitler’s language dehumanized the Jews  to a point that mistreatment, torture and extermination were not questioned by the masses.  I know we are not living in the midst of the Holocaust, but racism, homophobia, and hateful speech like this  are alive and thriving at EHS; I heard some of those voices online last Friday. I am still horrified by the ugliness and bullying that went virtually unchecked.  I vow to make sure that when I witness hateful speech, I will speak out.