"Few events in world history capture the depths of human depravity like the Holocaust. It is the moral catastrophe of the 20th century and the fundamental orienting event for an entire generation of post-war liberals." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/born-in-horror-a-moral-reading-of-the-liberalism-of-fear/
Liberal CurrentsBorn in Horror: A Moral Reading of “The Liberalism of Fear”Liberals have had their politics shaped by the horrors of history, and as a result, have developed a mature distaste for cruelty.