Headlines suggest we haven’t learned lessons

Your article “Generation to generation, Holocaust survivors’ stories live on” (May 22) about Holocaust survivors sharing their parents’ stories with students in schools during this period of immigrant intolerance, racism, and attacks on the rights of women, LGBTQ, and voting is timely.

Holocaust history is meant to ensure that it never happens again, and that we shall not disremember how quickly humanity can descend into a cauldron of hate, de-humanization, and murder on a vast scale. How are we doing in light of three articles in today’s paper?

President Donald Trump welcomed and praised Hungary’s prime minister Victor Orbán, a racist, anti-immigrant, and the most despicable hater of Jews in modern Europe.

Texas is using religious freedom as the excuse for “…a bill that would allow any state-licensed professional, from doctors to plumbers and electricians, to deny service to individuals based on religion… the clear purpose is to permit denial of service to LGBT Texans.”

“Impeachment calls get louder.” Trump places himself above the law by obstructing justice and disrespecting Congress; conduct that leads to tyranny.

America’s greatness is found in our respect for law, dignity for all, and freedom from oppression, not in hate and lawlessness. To forget that is to forget America. david andersen New london