While difficult, it is important that humanity as a collective learns to draw parallels between current events and history, to better prevent tragedies from happening, suggests Masha Gessen of The New Yorker. Making comparisons between Nazi concentration camps and the detention centers at the US-Mexico border have caused many to get upset. The reason this happens is that, having labeled the Holocaust as an unimaginable evil, bereft of all humanity, which doesn’t quite reflect reality, we have difficulty saying that anything from the present could be similar. In reality, there are many similarities that need to be addressed.