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@JewishConversations @jetton The first murdered victim may have been Arthur Kahn. Killed 1933-04-12 for being Jewish, true, – but arrested c. 1933-03-22 on (false) communism charges, and murdered alongside three Communist Jews.
So it is not inaccurate to say that "first they came for the Communists" (as Niemöller did, every time he made that speech).
Likewise: 1933-05-06, the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft was attacked. 1933-05-10, its books were burned. People were killed.
@JewishConversations @jetton People do edit out the groups they don't like – which entirely misses the point. (https://marcuse.faculty.history.ucsb.edu/publications/articles/Marcuse2016OriginReceptionNiemoellersQuotationOcr.pdf) And you are absolutely correct about the antisemitism, both then and now.
But you're missing a different point: this isn't about Europe in 1933. It's about the anglosphere, today. Antisemitism's still rife, sure, but not at the forefront of the current wave of hate. Queers, immigrants, and disabled people are being made to die, right now.
@JewishConversations @jetton People do edit out the groups they don't like – which entirely misses the point. (https://marcuse.faculty.history.ucsb.edu/publications/articles/Marcuse2016OriginReceptionNiemoellersQuotationOcr.pdf) And you are absolutely correct about the antisemitism, both then and now.