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.

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