This diary will be brief, but I just had to share this, a case of satire becoming reality. A few weeks ago, I and some others toyed with the old poem "First they came for communists," and created satiric versions meant to highlight the mindset of right-wingers today. Here was my version:
First they came for the whites....
But I did not speak out, for I am not a white.
Then they came for the men....
But I did not speak out, for I am not a man.
Then they came for the heterosexuals....
But I did not speak out, for I am not a heterosexual.
Then they came for the Gentiles....
But I did not speak out, for I am not a Gentile.
Then they came for the CEO billionaires....
But I did not speak out, for I am not a CEO billionaire.
But when they came for the black Jewish female gay paupers, I said, "WTF?"
Sound absurd? Well, guess what Laura Ingraham just came up with?
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