The Danger of Indifference: "Then They Came For Me"

[@LKs_myFavs2022]

One of my FAVORITE quotes! Either we ALL have free speech or NONE of us do!

[@gilberthamilton9312]

The quote is more about exercising free speech against hate speech. It's about not letting fascists abuse free speech without push back. It's about not tolerating intolerance. "The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant."

[@Llamabotomy]

@@gilberthamilton9312 Seconded

[@claudeyaz]

​​@@gilberthamilton9312 That is not what it's about it all my friend and Germany the nazis were in charge so the oppositoon would be considered hate speech... Socialists were the hate speech in that society.. And then you shut down that hate speech by shutting down the socialist. So if we actually want something equal to what's it going on today you would have to talk about whoever is being silenced by the liberal establishment.. It'd be crazy to think that history would repeat in the same way it doesn't but you can have real lessons that you can learn and not repeat the same mistake The quote is actually about not shutting down hate speech and not accepting anyone who shuts down any hate speech because one man's hate speech is another man's free speech

[@claudeyaz]

Because naziism may be considered hate speech to us but to people in Germany at the time nazism was silencing so called hate speech. So if you wanted something similar there you go

[@sachithfernando3918]

This has become more relevant for tomorrow more than Yesterday, by every single day Now

[@jeanphillips1030]

September of last year I went to DC and The Holecost Museum. My Dad fought against Hitler in France. I have never forgotten my experience there.

[@dougiesweeny4833]

As a Brit whose read Huxley and Orwell, and understand the historical facts yet thanks for the information greatly appreciated 🙏

[@casesusa]

USA following in the footsteps.

[@joaquindelarosa1215]

You are right, my friend.🙏

[@nielspemberton59]

@@joaquindelarosa1215 So WE MUST FIGHT !!!

[@jessicalandman8254]

Fight!!!! 🎉

[@raulmmurray9439]

Great video! Really enjoyed watching and learning.

[@sherry2066]

God bless you all & God bless Officer Johns’ family shalom mizpah

[@Contessa6363]

RIPOfficer Johns ❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️

[@ad1686]

Arizona has decided to re-institute the gas chamber for executions. I am appalled. Yet the indifference and ignorance I encounter when I attempt to have a conversation about this policy is frightening, disappointing, and despairing.

[@damiannightwalker8461]

Some people should be executed because their evil is not punished by life in prison. some might be fine with prison, tv, books,3 square meals most preferable to death. D, ,

[@karinstern3614]

"An Eye for an Eye. . ." Murderers are NOT victims-they victimize innocent people as well as animals! They only need to choose their vehicle to Hell-gas chamber, needle, hanging. It's called Consequences! Also, death penalty may be a deterrent to some with evil intentions!

[@karinstern3614]

A D/ Your self-righteousness is appalling & nonsensical! If there are evil deeds perpetrated against the innocent, there also must exist Consequences. Unless u prefer lawlessness; if u prefer no consequences for evil, u may enjoy being a woman in Afghanistan.

[@damiannightwalker8461]

@@karinstern3614 your looking a little hypocritical Karen. And lazy , you not u Karen. Personally I think eye for an eye execution would work better. Kill them the way they killed. D, ,

[@calebreutener870]

Making the tax payer pay for someone to live for free in jail with all the amenities they have is more of a punishment to them than the criminal

[@kamerondonaldson5976]

first they came for each other and there was no one left to come for me in an ideal world. first they came for the violent criminals and so everyone saw them as justified in coming for everyone else in the world we have.

[@jennymallin9404]

I am so curious as to how and why people began to hate the Jews so much. This is very helpful thank you

[@rechitsapivo]

This hatred has religious origins. According to Christian legend, it was the Jewish local authorities in Jerusalem that sentenced Jesus to die on the cross. Despite Romans actually carrying out the sentence, the blame stuck with the Jews. Well, of course, how could the Romans blame themselves, after all, the Catholic Church was based in Rome, so they couldn't say "our ancestors actually put Jesus to death". Having also been persecuted by the Roman Empire, I think it was easy for the catholic Church to dissasociate itself from the original Roman Empire and scapegoat the Jews (now that the ancient Romans are all dead). Not that the Jews were blame-free in that whole story, but Romans had the power and authority NOT to execute Jesus and they still did. Throughout the rest of history, especially the Middle Ages after the muslim conquest of Israel, when the Church ruled Europe and Jews had to leave Jerusalem, they could not own land or really permanently settle anywhere. In order to survive, Jews had to engage in economic activity that did not require land ownership. So they began lending money, going into trade, also engaged in arts and theater, and later into medicine and law. Obviously, in the survival situation such as this, only the greediest, most business-savvy individuals would survive and leave children. This would give rise to the stereotype of Jews as strictly money-oriented and secluded cast. But what else could they be if they were constantly denied other opportunities and were not accepted in regular circles? We have examples from Eastern European countries like Russian Empire, which, for quite a long period of time, allowed Jews to settle and own land. There, you could meet Jews who did not engage in money lending, but instead worked the land, and were poor like the rest of locals. In the West though, Catholic church created the "greedy Jew monster". Just like Darwin's theory suggests, the Church's antisemitism ideology created an evolutionary pressure on an ethnic group, over the centuries weeding out the weaklings and producing a cast of ruthless, smart, and highly capable businessmen. Now everyone hates the "greedy Jew" but they forget who made a regular Jew into that. The Church and Catholic Christianity have no one to blame but themselves. That's why Jews value education so much, that's why so many of them are entrepreneurs, businessmen, financiers, lawyers, doctors, Hollywood entertainers and moguls. They can almost smell opportunity--a trait bred by centuries of Catholic oppression.

[@kandimegahan7844]

@@rechitsapivo We all put Jesus to death.

[@ashleyKennedy5]

@@rechitsapivo Funny but Jewish legends put hatred of Jews back to being enslaved in Egypt and then Babylon later on and then enslaved of the Jewish war on Rome and then the Jewish genocide of non Jews in Cyprus and Cyrene.

[@arsjth]

Why does the left hate Republicans so much?

[@ashleyKennedy5]

@@arsjth Considering "They came for socialists first" I think you've got the direction of hate 180 degrees wrong.

[@annbrucepineda8093]

I think there has been anti Semitism in Spain and Latin America and there still is prejudice. Even Shakespeare, thought to be Roman Catholic, was prejudiced against Jews.

[@richardlopez337]

Are we live?

[@damiannightwalker8461]

the flag was prophetic they are trying D, ,

[@onetwo5120]

Sadly its relevant now, as we see the world's indifference to the 10/7 Jewish massacre in Israel

[@JWhite-eg4of]

I'll give this a few minutes more, but I come here for history in a specific time period and get an introduction mentioning George Floyd??? Excuse me???

[@juliangarcia46]

The tragic irony of your comment that the video is called The Danger of Indifference.

[@Contessa6363]

Scary that you don't seem to understand how that incident relates to the past

[@fashiondiva6972]

Your stunning ignorance and lack of insight into the relevance is truly something to behold. That you felt comfortable announcing both so boldly gives me secondhand embarrassment.

[@randomstuffs7648]

@@Contessa6363 exactly. George was killed in cold blood for being different. There was a man called Brian Egg. He was killed by hired workers in America for speaking out against the government. His friends kept on calling the police, but they did nothing. Even though there was a cleanup van arriving at his house while he was missing. His body was discovered only in the form of a torso swimming in a fish tank. The court claimed he commited suicide with a butter knife.. shaking my head.