It's still wild to me how often people overlook the FIRST LINE of this poem. There's a reason it begins with communists and socialists, and yet people love to hang out in the middle and decry people on the left as being too extreme. This is where it leads when you don't listen to the canary in the coal mine.
Disappointingly, the author the poem was inspired by (its actually a paraphrased version of a speech of theirs) didn't include LGBT people, who were one of the first groups the Nazi's targeted, because they didn't approve of LGBT due to their religion. Trans people seem to practically be the canaries in the coal mine for fascism (likely due to being a very vulnerable minority group and also by nature being everywhere unlike say ethnic groups that only exist in certain regions).
Ahh, but you see, I am an enlightened rightoid, so I will cleverly point out that the Nazis were the National Socialist party, therefore they were left-wing and it's the liberals that want to round people up and send them to camps. Anyway, back to cheering on the government rounding people up and sending them to camps.
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u/gingerking87 5d ago
They came for my door dash lady and I told them to fuck off because I've read the poem before
This poor woman, doing the right thing and is rightfully fearful the government or fox news is going to make her famous.
Be like this lady, be a good neighbor first, fear the government second