INDIFFERENCE

“Indifference to Evil Is Worse Than Evil Itself”—Why You Shouldn’t Look Away

Indifference is the bigot’s best friend, the hater’s permanent get-out-of-jail-free card.

Ken Burns Unmasks the Opposite of Love—Indifference—In Scathing Magnum Opus, The U.S. and the Holocaust

As of a 1938 poll, two-thirds of Americans feel the persecution “has been partly or entirely the Jews’ own fault.”

The world offers much to be indifferent about—violence, hatred, bias, discrimination, lies and death. At 68 it would be easy to snuggle up to that indifference by just working my garden, taking out the trash and muttering platitudes at my neighbors.