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Thu Mar 24, 2022, 12:37 PM Mar 2022

A bit of reading to help determine who is a fascist.

There is a display in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum that is a quote from Martin Niemöller. Reverend Niemöller was a Lutheran pastor during the '30s in Nazi Germany. In his book (titled in English Of Guilt and Hope) he wrote:

"Thus, whenever I chance to meet a Jew known to me before, then, as a Christian, I cannot but tell him: 'Dear Friend, I stand in front of you, but we can not get together, for there is guilt between us. I have sinned and my people has sinned against thy people and against thyself.'"


The display at the museum in DC has his words about what it means to do nothing about evil:
First they came for the 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 for me.


I can't say for sure that there are no fascists in Ukraine.
I CAN say for sure that you can find some Russia.
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