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Spielberg: ‘Collective Hate’ Worse Today Than When ‘Schindler’s List’ Debuted

Paul Bois

Speaking with NBC in an extended interview published Wednesday, Steven Spielberg spoke about the re-release of his award-winning Holocaust drama, “Schindler’s List,” and how times have changed for the worse since.

“I think there is more at stake today than even back then,” Spielberg told Lester Holt. “Individual hate is a terrible thing, but when collective hate organizes and gets industrialized, then genocide follows. We have to take it more seriously today than I think we have had to take it in a generation.”

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