Comment by gigatexal

"doing nothing when bad things are happening in our communities is what allows them to happen…"

Sounds familiar. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Attribution appears to be a matter of debate.)

> Think what the villages around the concentration camps must have known and yet did nothing.

If you mean extermination camps, they knew. They were also part of occupied, conquered and heavily terrorized lands. They occasionally did something, terrorist attack against Germans here and there, usually retaliated against by killing a lot of random citizens. Usually motivated by plight of own people.

Extermination camps were located in Poland - German plans involved moving away and killing all Polish, so that they can be replaced by Germans. Germans seen Jews as primary danger to be exterminated fast, Slavic as secondary lower value being to be exterminated slowly in time. Polish army lost the war. And random villagers were not in position to do anything about the highly violent occupying army.

(And yes, Jews were at danger of being denounced by anti semitic locals too. Turned out one could be subject of racial oppression and being oppressor himself).

With the news being so biased it could very well make you less able to participate in democracy effectively.

Maybe the villages around concentration camps did nothing because they were consuming nazi propaganda.

Anyone downvoting this is either ostrich or a fan of Trump.