Also in the original German it wasn’t socialists second it was the sozialdemokraten (social democrats)
Fourth Reich :amerikkka: :germany-cool:
“First they came for the small business owners, but I did not speak out because I was not a small business owner.”
:mao-aggro-shining:
“Then they came for the semi-fuedal landlords, but I did not speak out because I was not a semi-fuedal landlord.”
from the wiki of the poem:
An American version delivered by a congressman in 1968 includes industrialists, who were only persecuted by the Nazis on an individual basis, and omits Communists. :agony-shivering:
some lib on r*ddit the other day was using an article from this place as a source for uyghur genocide, with the whole line of “oh the victims of communism foundation is too nazi a source for you is it, hows this for a non-nazi source checkmate hur hur”
and it turned out the article in question had no sources, but it did have a whole personal sob story repeated uncritically (with sad pictures) from rushan abbas, the lady who did the famous ama on reddit and it turned out she just happened to be a cia spook who worked at guantanamo
anyway im sure its just a coincidence
The actual first stanza refers to Mr. Potato Head
