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IrishBubbaLiberal

(1,143 posts)
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 09:35 AM Friday

They're Coming For Us. "First they came for......."


https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martin-niemoeller-first-they-came-for-the-socialists

Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) was a prominent Lutheran pastor in Germany. In the 1920s and early 1930s, he sympathized with many Nazi ideas and supported radically right-wing political movements. But after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, Niemöller became an outspoken critic of Hitler’s interference in the Protestant Church. He spent the last eight years of Nazi rule, from 1937 to 1945, in Nazi prisons and concentration camps. Niemöller is perhaps best remembered for his postwar statement, which begins “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out…”


The quotation expresses Niemöller’s belief that Germans had been complicit through their silence in the Nazi imprisonment, persecution, and murder of millions of people. He felt this was especially true of the leaders of the Protestant churches, which were made up of Lutheran, Reformed, and United traditions


The Quote

First 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 for me.
—Martin Niemöller
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They're Coming For Us. "First they came for......." (Original Post) IrishBubbaLiberal Friday OP
History repeating itself through the dotard! IzzaNuDay Friday #1
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IzzaNuDay

(908 posts)
1. History repeating itself through the dotard!
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 09:41 AM
Friday

the dotard started with immigrants, especially non white. Since 2015
Made fun of disabled people (the infamous video)
Then it’s the LGTBQ community
Women (Roe v Wade repealed)
You know he’s after other non white US citizens saying DEI/woke because they can’t say the N word.

this parallels Hitler and it is sickening.





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