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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you have to deal with libs and that poem - let them know something that changes the context of poem completely. The writer called Hitler an "instrument sent by god" and he was only worried about the Nazis after they came for his church.

Holocaust Memorial Day Trust | Pastor Martin Niemöller

Like many Germans at the time, Niemöller believed that the Nazis and Hitler would provide strong leadership to make Germany a powerful and respected nation again. He also saw the Nazi party as a way for Germany to return to the Christian morals he thought had been abandoned, even referring to Hitler as an ‘instrument sent by god’. Niemöller’s eventual split with the Nazi party came when they started to control the German Protestant Church.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don’t think they care about any of that. Bringing up the fact that the US removed “communists” from its version is more interesting because they didn’t want people to sympathize with communists massacred by fascists.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t think they care about any of that.

I don't know what they care about but...

Bringing up the fact that the US removed “communists” from its version is more interesting

We care. But I don't think they care about that at all. In fact - I'd bet money on it.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know what they care about but...

che-smile good point. I think its just "civility" and "stability in the region."

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

And then slapped that butchered quote over the entrance to a museum with the stated goal of highlighting the dangers of dehumanizing people.

Because they didn't want people to be sympathetic to communists.

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well yes that's very much what the text of the poem is about

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Libs don't know the context. They think of him ~~as a good guy~~ as a neutral observer who didn't know better.

[Edit: I realize now a "good guy" is wrong.]

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I interpreted the poem as a former nazi sympathiser growing to understand why what he did was wrong

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe it was specifically written by a catholic priest but yes