• nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    22 days ago

    Remember the poem? ‘First they came for the communists’. They never came for the liberals, they worked with them. There has always been a difference, and there will always be a difference.

    • lugal@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      “Fun” fact about the quote (or poem) you refer to: It’s by Martin Niemöller and meant in a self critical way. He was a conservative Christian and really couldn’t bother about godless communists or Jews. Only when they came after him we woke up.