Wednesday, February 23, 2022

'Othering' Others, In Particular Small & Unpopular Minorities, Has Ever Had a Rather Fraught & Tragic History...And So, Perhaps Y'All Had Better Take Your Covid Mandates & Go & Stick Them Somewhere Where the Sun Never Shines - For All Our Sakes Ultimately...

They came for the Jews and I said nothing because I wasn't a Jew...

Then they came for the mentally infirm and I said nothing because I wasn't mentally infirm...

Then they came for the sick and decrepit and I said nothing because I wasn't sick and decrepit...

Then they came for the Gypsies and I said nothing because I wasn't a Gypsy...

Then they came for the communists and socialists and I said nothing because I was neither a communist nor a socialist...

And finally they came for you and me but there wasn't anyone left to speak out and up for us...

Postscript:

Admittedly I'd concede a rather imprecise rendition of that famous, memorable sentiment (but best available recollection for the present).

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