Comment by samatman
5 years ago
> Funny; I thought it was "First they deplatformed Nazis, and I did not speak out because Nazis can get fucked."
The original quote which you're abusing begins "first they came for the Communists".
These were Communists in the era of Josef Stalin, to be clear. Mass-murdering totalitarians, exactly the sort of people you wouldn't want taking over your country.
It appears you missed both the lesson of Herr Niemoller, and a key part of the history of the rise of Nazism in Weimar Germany.
Pity.
Someone missed a lesson from history. Might be me; might not.
In modern Germany, it's still illegal to explicitly disseminate means of propaganda of unconstitutional organizations. Is this wrong? I think I'll defer to the modern Germans on that question.
There's also difference of degree. Deplatforming Nazis (which is how parent post bastardized the quote initially) is not the same as incarcerating them. I was playing off the bastardization.
If you want to continue to defend platforming Nazis, be my guest, but I don't have to discuss it with you.
Many a barn door is closed after the horses escape.
I, too, have negative interest in continuing to speak to an unpleasant person who makes unsupported assumptions about my views on a topic I never addressed.
German communists most likely weren't aware of what was really happening in the USSR at the time. (Whether an hypothetical communist revolution in Germany would have resulted in Stalinist-like horrors is an interesting question.) French communists have had a disproportionate part in French resistance, and a disproportionate part in French after-war policies for a long time.