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First They Came…

First they came for the black community
And I did not speak out
Because I was not black

Then they came for the immigrants
And I did not speak out
Because I was not an immigrant

Then they came for the Muslims
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Muslim

Then they came for the disabled
And I did not speak out
Because I was not disabled

Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not Jewish

Then they came for the uterus-having people
And I did not speak out
Because I did not have a uterus

Then they came for the queer community
And I did not speak out
Because I was not part of the queer community

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

I am a queer, uterus-holding Jew, so this is written in the style of the original poet, Martin Niemöller, a anti-Nazi. Although he wasn’t part of any of the parties he mentions in the original. I am just pissed after what happened today and this is what it feels like is going to happen.

Pinned Post first they came for poem rewrite i'm so angry

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wilwheaton

““When they mentioned that this was a terrorist organization, I said ‘Well, then count me as a Mom for Liberty,’” Haley proclaimed to the sold-out crowd. She was met with roaring applause.”

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Moms for Liberty’s Philadelphia Summit Sees Trump, DeSantis, Haley Pander to Crowd

Moms for Liberty is a fascist hate group, funded by the same people who fund the Proud Boys.

joseph-lavode

Source: thedailybeast.com

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incorrectpuppethistory

Ryan: Welcome to the “Fuck Elon Club” where we say fuck you, to the asshole that is Elon Musk.

The Professor: In this case, I don't think anyone misunderstood what the club was about.

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shretl

I feel every Jew on tumblr needs to see this.

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theanishimori

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TL;DR – Twitter thread by a library worker on a news article about a woman who pulled hundreds of books out of a library dumpster and donated them to an underserved school. THOSE BOOKS WERE THROWN OUT FOR A REASON. Like outdated science, racism, and misogyny. #ContextMatters

thepunchingbag

Sorry, book burning is ALWAYS bad.

Listen, even if the books are legit crap and promote the most horrible things in the world, I am against burning them. The kids should be able to read these books - with the understanding that these books are flawed and have racism/misogyny within them. And maybe it’s a good opportunity to teach them how to recognize propaganda and misinformation? Or to see how outdated science can evolve?

But book burning is the wrong move. Always will be. Don’t go down this road, it will end up backfiring.

sir-libearian

… books being discarded by a library is not equivalent to being burned or banned. To even be considered for removal, books will either be in very bad physical shape or will be ones no one has checked out in several years, or will be replaced by newer editions of the same biok. Copies of these books still exist in archives with the express purpose of being preserved, and can be gotten by the library through inter library loan if someone wants to read them.

Weeding and discard of books are very thorough processes, and as the thread says books in good condition that would be useful elsewhere are donated, or sometimes sold to fundraise for the library. Many libraries will also have a cart of free books for people to take if they want.

If, after all this work, and evaluation, and opportunities for reuse, a book is placed in a dumpster, it’s because it isnt needed or useful anywhere else.

Again, this is not the same thing as banning books or burning them. If that were the case we’d be talking about stuff like trumps autobiographies, not outdated books from the 70s that haven’t been circulating.

scarlet-rosepetals

I left a similar but longer comment on a different thread of this post but it is in a way fascinating to see what’s come of the education system teaching the concept of book burning as like, the nazis piling up whatever books they could find and lighting them on fire for fun.

Book burning is the specific concentrated effort to eradicate specific information, it’s not just the literal act of destroying a book.

glorioustidalwavedefendor

Holocaust Memorial Day Trust | 6 May 1933: Looting of the Institute of Sexology

On 6 May 1933, the Institute of Sexology, an academic foundation devoted to sexological research and the advocacy of homosexual rights, was

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For all my beloved mutuals who might need it

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pissvortex

twitter is going to be shut down. half of reddit is locked or completely unmoderated. the entire first page of google search results are ads. tumblr does not and will never have a functioning search system and their content moderation is 100% automated. youtube only shares ad revenue with people who make snuff films for Youtube Kids. facebook is selling your grandma’s social security number under the table for like $5. web 2.0 is completely dead right

uselessgaywhovian

catchymemes

Throwing an apple from an offshore oilrig

bunjywunjy

food chain speedrun

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itchy-9884

butyoutoldmeiwasfunny

All the libraries on the planet couldn't hold the volumes of what these people don't understand.

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afloweroutofstone

Today's court ruling weakening discrimination protections for LGBTQ people stands out as extraordinarily strange to me for the simple fact that there was no case. The web designer in question never received a request to create a website for a gay wedding, but instead argued that a hypothetical situation in which she did would violate her rights. I've never really heard of anything like this before— how does she even have standing to sue? Can @radiofreederry or someone with more knowledge of legalese than me elaborate on this?

Melissa Gira Grant, "The Christian Right Is Making Up Wedding Websites to Attack LGBTQ People," The New Republic, 28 June 2023:

In this latest case, there is no website and no wedding—just an argument from an anti-LGBTQ group in search of the court’s favor...

No person has hired Smith to create a wedding website. In fact, Smith has never designed a wedding website, according to her petition to the court. As such, there is no client Smith has told she is rejecting due to her stated religious beliefs that marriage is only allowed between one man and one woman. In the absence of all that, ADF has, instead, fashioned Smith as the victim of an injury that has never occurred.

So who has hypothetically victimized Smith? A Colorado anti-discrimination law, which, since 2008, has included protections from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. ADF claims Smith’s desire “to bring glory to God by creating unique expression that shares her religious beliefs of creating wedding websites” is thwarted by this law “because she only wants to make websites that comport with her values that same-sex marriage is illegitimate.” Were Smith to get into the wedding website business, the anti-discrimination law “would force me to say things about marriage I disagree with,” Smith wrote in an opinion piece for The Washington Times, when her case was argued at the Supreme Court last December...

Can the court rule on thought experiments?

giucomix

Did you read Melissa Gira Grant’s other article, also on The New Republic, from the following day?

Apparently the case was indeed rejected at first; but then they eventually brought proof that Smith did, in fact, receive a request for a gay wedding website.

But in the article Grant says she contacted the person who supposedly sent this request... and they claimed to be a straight man who never made any such request?

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