Video of a kind man supporting his Muslim neighbour. AIBU to be horrified that this is where we’re at right now?

It came to this for a few reasons:

A belief came from somewhere that every generation should be 'better off than the last.' It makes no sense but many people are fixated on it and feel very hard done by when they perceive that they don't have it as easy as their parents. Rather than just acting like grownups and accepting that there are natural peaks and troughs in any country's fortunes, they feel their entitlement is being taken from them and they need someone to blame. Foreign people are an easy target for the hard of thinking.

You add in covid, where the rug was pulled from under literally everyone in the world pretty much and you get a sense of hoplessness that stokes the pettiness and angry entitlement.

People are literally smearing shit on synagogues in the UK, hounding and isolating Jewish students in British universities, abusing Jewish school children and Jewish people are increasingly hiding any sign of being Jewish in public, people in the UK have openly supported the racist murders against Jew of October 7th, and tore down posters of the hostages. Jewish people have been struck by, at best, the remarkable absence of support from their fellow British citizens in the face of all this hostility and hatred. As one Jewish man put it, ' I used to think I was a British Jew. Now I realise I am just a Jew who happens to live in Britain.'

I think all this is more reminiscent of 1930s Germany.

Because human nature never fundamentally changes