Pixelated Semantics

A schizotypical inventory

On speaking out

A superbly vitriolic column outlining perceptions of America's "friendly fascism" concludes with these memorable (if somewhat doggerel) words:

First they came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.

This was written by one Rev. Martin Niemoller in Germany in 1945. And wasn't it also the German philospher Hegel who effectively said that those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it?

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