The Lilac People

by Milo Todd

When people hurt bad enough, they’ll grab any idea to make their own lives better, no matter how illogical.

“Any invert who thinks Hitler will stop at transvestites is a fool. And any person who thinks Hitler will stop at inverts thereafter is just as foolish. They try to convince people that you’re the only group they’re after when really you’re just the first one. They look for the first domino to knock down, the one people will give the least resistance to, the one they care about the least. And once they’ve done it, it might be too late for everyone else.”

An erasure of history was an erasure of personhood.

Pride in a country was for what it could do for its people, not what it could take away. He did not find this a difficult concept. Yet here they were. And he would need to get used to it.

“History isn’t artifacts or pictures or things. History is the people who made them.”