At the Holocaust Museum in DC, they have the Martin Niemoeller quote, "First they came for the . . ., but I didn't care, because I wasn't an . . . . " However, they have redacted it to leave out the first trope, where NM says, "First they came for the Communists," because that's OK. Coming for the Communists, that is.
jks
--- BklynMagus <magcomm at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Dear List:
>
> Woj is so right. Europeans are so much more
> enlightened
> than Americans. How could I not see it?
>
> "Poland's European Parliament members immediately
> protested
> against the list of Auschwitz victims, where gays
> preceded Poles.
> Polish deputy Wojciech Roszkowski told the Brussels
> body: "The
> life of every human is equally important, but when
> we speak of
> big numbers, putting the Jewish, Roma, homosexual
> and Polish
> victims together borders on the absurd." Poland's
> largely
> chauvinistic and homophobic media echoed the
> protest. In the final
> text of the resolution approved by the European
> Parliament, gay
> victims were placed at the end of the list. At this
> week's ceremony
> at Auschwitz, on Polish soil, gay victims were not
> mentioned at all."
>
> The rest at:
>
>
>
http://www.thegully.com/essays/gaymundo/050203_gay_auschwitz.html
>
> Brian Dauth
> Queer Buddhist Resister
>
>
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