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.
7 Comments
Maeve@kbin.earth · -4 pts · 1y
Appropriated from.ml
cm0002@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
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
Maeve@kbin.earth · -5 pts · 1y
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%27ll_find_a_fascist
cm0002@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
pizzaamoreprego@feddit.it · 1 pts · 1y
Maeve@kbin.earth · -4 pts · 1y
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IbSHDK3iH5M
cm0002@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 1y
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BBJa32lCaaY
shani66@ani.social · 2 pts · 1y
What are you even on about