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.
Appropriated from.ml
Hm yes, well at least we can say things like China is Authoritarian and fuck the US in the same sentence here without bans and censorship
allpoetry.com/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.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/scratch_a_liberal_and_you%27ll_find_a_fascist