Martin Niemöller: "First they came for the Socialists..."
Learn about the origins and legacy of Pastor Martin Niemöller's famous postwar words, “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out…”
I think it is time for me to remind everyone, again...
Trans people can no longer get passports.
President Musk is a personally motivated transphobe.
Trans people are the first line in this iteration of the poem. We have already been abandoned by the Democratic party.
I don't know why Niemöller omitted them, but in fact trans people were the first line in that iteration, too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissenschaft#Nazi_era
They were first the last time too. That history had just been pretty much erased.
The Democratic party has no institutional power at the moment. Stop assessing blame to them and focus in who is allied and able to help.
Blaming the Democratic Party is completely useless, as useless as you believe them to be. In part they are captured, and in part they are literally in the jaws of a fascist government.
And you're still blaming them for this moment. They might end up at GITMO.
Dems have no institutional power when they are the majority. They are ineffective in everything they do. And theyve enabled the current fascists in power.
Trans, like all other marginalized communities, were only ever pawns for power to the DNC. Used to obtain their goals then tossed aside when they were no longer needed.
Can we add the classic Don't Be a Sucker? Similar message about paying attention to what's happening to other people and not waiting until it's your turn.
This one was shockingly accurate when I first saw it last year. Tragically, we turned out to be a nation of dumbass suckers.
"We human beings are not born with prejudices. Always they are made for us. Made by someone who wants something. Remember that when you hear this kind of talk - somebody is going to get something out of it, and it isn't going to be you."
Even this poem minimizes the fact that the Nazis came after LGBTQ+ folks first.
Because he was FOR that.
Also a VIRULENT anti-semite. He was a giant piece of shit who had a nice shocked Pikachu moment when Hitler went back on his deal to let protestant churches do whatever they wanted without nazi interference.
Yeah the Weimar Republic was many things and it was a pretty progressive place prior to 1933. Then it quickly changed.
Important to note that in the original it was the "Communists" they came for not "Socialists". Link (German)