Tuesday, January 19, 2021

When they come for me, they may come for you

   


Martin Niemöller came up with how the lack of adherence to standards can seem fine when it happens to somebody else. 

But when happens when they come for you?

So, updated for modern times, we might see it more like this:

 First they came for Twitter accounts, and I did not speak out

            —because I didn’t use Twitter.

 

    Then they came for Facebook users, and I did not speak out

— because I wasn’t a Facebook user..

 

    Then they came for the YouTubers, and I did not speak out—because I was not a YouTuber.

 

    Then they came for me

 —and there was no one left to speak for me.


The original went something like:

First they came for Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for 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 out for me