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.
Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.
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'll_find_a_fascist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
Removed by mod
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IbSHDK3iH5M
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BBJa32lCaaY
What are you even on about