Source: Common Dreams
by Laura Flanders
“It’s one of the most rousing calls to conscience to come out of the 20th century. I’m thinking of Martin Niemöller’s ‘First they came for the communists’. You know how it goes. It begins, ‘First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a communist.’ And it ends, ‘Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.’ It’s a powerful statement, and you’ll see it on T-shirts and posters and placards at demonstrations. But when you actually look at our history, it’s not just that good people didn’t speak out. It’s that many Americans threw other Americans under the bus. The story of the Danish king who wore a yellow star in solidarity with Jewish Danes during World War II is apocryphal. It never happened.” (10/25/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/liberal-appeasement-fascism