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There's talk about how the people involved in this shit, the violent radicals and stuff are just Regular People with Regular Jobs and how Polite and Nice they can be and yep! that's a thing. Kinda reminds me of The Boys From Brazil. (tw antisemitism, holocaust)
There's a bit where the main character, a Nazi hunter and Jewish Holocaust survivor, sits down with this woman who worked at the camp where members of his family died. And she's just very normal and mundane and regular and he's so angry with her he can barely TALK with her
and it's incredibly chilling because the whole book is about how hate doesn't go away, it just simmers under the surface behind a lot of affable, respectable people, some of whom are in positions of power, some just like your neighbors and stuff.
The book is taking place years after WWII and there are "progressive" student groups talking about how gee, shouldn't we move on from this, shouldn't we be ready to forgive and forget? Because it's easier than addressing the ongoing horror of antisemitism.
So yeah! You can't forgive and forget without accountability, you can't look away from this, you can't pretend this isn't happening and you can't assume being Polite and Nice means someone is a good person.
