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minus-squareNoIWontPickAName@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down20·4 months agoIt is easy to say that when you’re not the one that they are using the law against. Will you say that when they come for you next?
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·4 months agoIf they come for me because I’m a fascist, then yes, just take me out behind the shed and put me out of my misery.
minus-squareNoIWontPickAName@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down12·4 months agoWhat if it’s for some other reason? You have to look at how easily this can be fucking twisted.
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·4 months agoIf they came for me because I was a communist, socialist, trade unionist, or Jew? I would speak up and fight back. If they came for me because I was denying people their right to exist, like I said, stick a fork in me, I’m done.
minus-squareKilling_Spark@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up14·4 months agoAre you actually referencing the “first they came for the Jews but I wasn’t a Jew” thing to argue that we should let nazis go ahead and take the power?
It is easy to say that when you’re not the one that they are using the law against.
Will you say that when they come for you next?
If they come for me because I’m a fascist, then yes, just take me out behind the shed and put me out of my misery.
What if it’s for some other reason? You have to look at how easily this can be fucking twisted.
If they came for me because I was a communist, socialist, trade unionist, or Jew? I would speak up and fight back.
If they came for me because I was denying people their right to exist, like I said, stick a fork in me, I’m done.
Are you actually referencing the “first they came for the Jews but I wasn’t a Jew” thing to argue that we should let nazis go ahead and take the power?