A blog devoted to the actors and public policy issues involved in the 1998 District of Columbia Court of Appeals decision in Freedman v. D.C. Department of Human Rights, an employment discrimination case.
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
The Need to Speak Up Against Injustice!
In Germany they first came for the Jewish Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jewish Communist -- although I did have a few red shirts in my closet. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew -- technically speaking. Then they came for the people who eat at Chinese restaurants -- and I didn't speak up because I don't eat at Chinese restaurants. I'm too assimilated. Besides, I'm allergic to MSG. Then they came for the people whose best friends were Jews -- you know the type, "Some of my best friends are Jews" -- and I didn't speak up because my best friends are, in fact, anti-Semites, not Jews. Then they came for me, a half-Jewish asymptomatic paranoid schizophrenic — and by that time no one was left to speak up.
Justice Elena Kagan humor. Am I allowed to say that?
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