They Stopped Coming for People
"First they came for the blacks, and I didn't speak out, because I wasn't black. And then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out, because I wasn't a Jew. And then they realized that all the problems had pretty much been solved, so they stopped coming for people."
A black-and-white photo shows a horse-drawn carriage passing a grand European building, overlaid with a darkly satirical adaptation of the “First they came...” quote. The punchline reverses the usual warning about silence and oppression: instead of continuing to persecute groups, the oppressors supposedly stop because all problems have already been solved. It is used as an ironic reaction to absurd political logic, prejudice, or claims that social problems have been fixed. EN: A black-and-white photo shows a horse-drawn carriage passing a grand European building, overlaid with a darkly satirical adaptation of the “First they came...” quote. The punchline reverses the usual warning about silence and oppression: instead of continuing to persecute groups, the oppressors supposedly stop because all problems have already been solved. It is used as an ironic reaction to absurd political logic, prejudice, or claims that social problems have been fixed.
- @itvbia / 4007 2020-07-31
- Template
- First They Came
- Type
- image
- Size
- 800×502 · 95.6 KiB
- Mood
- darkly satirical
- Language
- en
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