| Dangerous times 22:04 - Mar 6 with 2152 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
First they came for the Palestinians
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Palestinian
Then they came for the Mexicans
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Mexican
Then they came for the immigrants
And I did not speak out
Because I was not an immigrant
Then they came for Ukraine
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Ukranian
Then they came for Greenland
And I did not speak out
Because I was not an Inuit
Then they came for Canada
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Canadian
Then they came for the EU
And I did not speak out
Because I am not a European
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me |  |
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| Dangerous times on 22:09 - Mar 6 with 2098 views | J2BLUE |
Bit forced.
Most of the world are speaking up for Ukraine and no one outside of the US/Israel supports the plan for Gaza. |  |
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| Dangerous times on 22:18 - Mar 6 with 2063 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Dangerous times on 22:09 - Mar 6 by J2BLUE |
Bit forced.
Most of the world are speaking up for Ukraine and no one outside of the US/Israel supports the plan for Gaza. |
I was thinking more of those in the US who put him in place unless there is genuine pressure from them to put him down.
I think most of the rest of the world by now are down to the final paragraph. Perhaps they raced through them too fast for anyone to make a stand. | |
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| Dangerous times on 22:25 - Mar 6 with 2040 views | Trequartista |
Hamas came for young innocent Israelis
And I did not speak out
Because it's not very woke. |  |
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| Dangerous times on 22:53 - Mar 6 with 1902 views | reusersfreekicks |
| Dangerous times on 22:25 - Mar 6 by Trequartista |
Hamas came for young innocent Israelis
And I did not speak out
Because it's not very woke. |
Appalling post |  | | |
| Dangerous times on 23:36 - Mar 6 with 1805 views | Illinoisblue |
| Dangerous times on 22:25 - Mar 6 by Trequartista |
Hamas came for young innocent Israelis
And I did not speak out
Because it's not very woke. |
That last sentence is very unnecessary. |  |
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| Dangerous times on 01:12 - Mar 7 with 1720 views | BlueBadger |
| Dangerous times on 22:25 - Mar 6 by Trequartista |
Hamas came for young innocent Israelis
And I did not speak out
Because it's not very woke. |
Edgy |  |
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| Dangerous times on 01:19 - Mar 7 with 1707 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Dangerous times on 22:25 - Mar 6 by Trequartista |
Hamas came for young innocent Israelis
And I did not speak out
Because it's not very woke. |
The only people who pretend to believe that Israeli-Palestinian problems began on 7/7/23 are Benjamin Netanyahu and J.D. Vance.
And now you.
Maybe Google "Rafah CAT bulldozers" and get back to us, eh?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Corrie |  | | |
| Dangerous times on 01:42 - Mar 7 with 1672 views | buoyant |
More pathetic than appalling |  |
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| Dangerous times on 01:53 - Mar 7 with 1647 views | Oldsmoker |
| Dangerous times on 22:25 - Mar 6 by Trequartista |
Hamas came for young innocent Israelis
And I did not speak out
Because it's not very woke. |
As individual keyboard warriors we can't change or influence the conflicts around the world.
If the world hung on our every word then posts like that would lead to hackers revealing where you live and a whole load of bother would be knocking on your front door.
But still, thanks to anonymity we can post as much sh1te as we like. |  |
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| Dangerous times on 08:12 - Mar 7 with 1416 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Dangerous times on 22:25 - Mar 6 by Trequartista |
Hamas came for young innocent Israelis
And I did not speak out
Because it's not very woke. |
Except most people were appalled by the attacks. Your last line tells us a lot. |  |
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| Dangerous times on 09:54 - Mar 7 with 1265 views | DJR |
| Dangerous times on 22:25 - Mar 6 by Trequartista |
Hamas came for young innocent Israelis
And I did not speak out
Because it's not very woke. |
Despite being hijacked by the right, woke originally meant alert to racial prejudice and discrimination.
I would say that the Jewish people over millennia have suffered more racial prejudice and discrimination than any other race. Indeed, that is why the state of Israel was created.
But in turn that created racial injustice and discrimination on the part of the Palestinian people.
Given this, to look at things in terms of wokeness doesn't really make sense. [Post edited 7 Mar 9:55]
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| Dangerous times on 09:57 - Mar 7 with 1233 views | StokieBlue |
| Dangerous times on 22:25 - Mar 6 by Trequartista |
Hamas came for young innocent Israelis
And I did not speak out
Because it's not very woke. |
Wow.
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| Dangerous times on 10:20 - Mar 7 with 1159 views | lowhouseblue |
| Dangerous times on 22:25 - Mar 6 by Trequartista |
Hamas came for young innocent Israelis
And I did not speak out
Because it's not very woke. |
you get an up arrow just for pricking the extreme trite-ness of the op. the op both encapsulates hackneyed and trite at its purest, and at the same time dilutes and diminishes an important historical statement about the holocaust.
i don't think there are many on here who didn't at the time 'speak out' about the hamas attack - but equally there aren't many who haven't opposed what's listed in the op. in the wider world there are certainly many who did dismiss or justify the hamas attack, just as there are many who justify trump's crap. |  |
| And so as the loose-bowelled pigeon of time swoops low over the unsuspecting tourist of destiny, and the flatulent skunk of fate wanders into the air-conditioning system of eternity, I notice it's the end of the show |
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| Dangerous times on 10:50 - Mar 7 with 1047 views | DJR |
The interesting thing about the original, written by a German pastor, is that they did come for him because, having first supported the Nazis, he objected to Hitler's insistence on the supremacy of the state over religion, but they didn't come for the many millions of Germans who went along with what Hitler got up to. | | | |
| Dangerous times on 12:47 - Mar 7 with 929 views | Horsham |
| Dangerous times on 10:20 - Mar 7 by lowhouseblue |
you get an up arrow just for pricking the extreme trite-ness of the op. the op both encapsulates hackneyed and trite at its purest, and at the same time dilutes and diminishes an important historical statement about the holocaust.
i don't think there are many on here who didn't at the time 'speak out' about the hamas attack - but equally there aren't many who haven't opposed what's listed in the op. in the wider world there are certainly many who did dismiss or justify the hamas attack, just as there are many who justify trump's crap. |
The message in the OP is to not sit idly by while the expansionionist ultra nationalist regimes take what they feel through war, murder, rape, kidnapping, starvation, siege, economic oppression and the every other form of leverage under the sun. I don’t honestly see any right minded person opposing that message. I understand how you’ve linked this to some kind of holocaust denial (edit - too strong but I don’t see how this diminishes the importance of the historical statement re the holocaust) but humanity now cannot undo the holocaust but it can learn from the mistakes made by those who appeased Hitler and perhaps do better in the future.
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| Dangerous times on 12:59 - Mar 7 with 879 views | lowhouseblue |
| Dangerous times on 12:47 - Mar 7 by Horsham |
The message in the OP is to not sit idly by while the expansionionist ultra nationalist regimes take what they feel through war, murder, rape, kidnapping, starvation, siege, economic oppression and the every other form of leverage under the sun. I don’t honestly see any right minded person opposing that message. I understand how you’ve linked this to some kind of holocaust denial (edit - too strong but I don’t see how this diminishes the importance of the historical statement re the holocaust) but humanity now cannot undo the holocaust but it can learn from the mistakes made by those who appeased Hitler and perhaps do better in the future.
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i absolutely have not made any link to holocaust denial whatsoever. my point was that a powerful historical statement about the holocaust is diminished through flippant, lazy, and hyperbolic repetition.
surely there must be ways of expressing strong disagreement other than comparing stuff to hitler. too often it comes across as hysterical. it's done so often that it's just a dog whistle for people who already agree to confirm their agreement. why don't we have any other historical analogies with which to express badness. mao, peron, stalin, gengis kahn, and pol pot are consistently being let down in the hyperbolic cliche stakes. | |
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| Dangerous times on 13:05 - Mar 7 with 832 views | J2BLUE |
| Dangerous times on 12:47 - Mar 7 by Horsham |
The message in the OP is to not sit idly by while the expansionionist ultra nationalist regimes take what they feel through war, murder, rape, kidnapping, starvation, siege, economic oppression and the every other form of leverage under the sun. I don’t honestly see any right minded person opposing that message. I understand how you’ve linked this to some kind of holocaust denial (edit - too strong but I don’t see how this diminishes the importance of the historical statement re the holocaust) but humanity now cannot undo the holocaust but it can learn from the mistakes made by those who appeased Hitler and perhaps do better in the future.
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But no one is sitting idly by.
Canada, Mexico and the EU can all defend themselves and have done so. Ukraine have had weapons and support from across the world. Most of the world has spoken out against the Gaza plan. Denmark and Greenland have told Trump to do one.
It just doesn't fit at all. | |
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