• bleistift2English
    19·
    7 hours ago

    I case anyone is unfamiliar:

    First they came for the Communists
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a Communist

    Then they came for the Socialists
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a Socialist

    Then they came for the trade unionists
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a trade unionist

    Then they came for the Jews
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a Jew

    Then they came for me
    And there was no one left
    To speak out for me

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_…

    • podperson@lemm.ee
      1·
      40 minutes ago

      Amazing how relevant a poem written just after WW2 is to how people voted in this last US election.

      • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        17 minutes ago

        It was literally written by someone who was in the leopards eating faces party. Wow.