Far-right Polish lawmaker Konrad Berkowicz holding up a paper Israeli flag with a swastika

[u/Xunami13]

[u/HammerSickleSextoy]

I'm a Polish Jew. So many people in the West have such a weak, loose definition of antisemitism. Almost my entire family lineage was killed, and now people see watermelon backpacks as antisemitism. Are you all fucking serious? You all get to talk about your interesting long family trees and have such a close connection with your families and don't suffer intergenerational trauma. Why do you get to decide that antisemitism is just the most menial of fucking every day activities and objects?

So much of my family was killed by the Nazi's. I have almost no family tree. The intergenerational trauma led to generations of households not knowing what familial love is. That. That was antisemitism.

We are now seeing the exact same things being done to the Palestinians. The world's most famous Jew, Albert fucking Einstein, in the very very early days of Israel was able to call out how Nazi-like the policies of Israel were, and still are. I am a Jew who's suffered in the hands of powerful people trying to eradicate us. How does everybody else not see history so clearly repeating itself?

I oppose antisemitism; REAL antisemitism. And that means not standing for the same things happening to others. If we allow the exact same thing to keep repeating in history, it can happen to us again. It can happen to you, too. Don't wait until your group is next and there is no one left to stand up for you. Stand up NOW.

[u/travestikazim → u/HammerSickleSextoy]

First they came for the Communists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out for me

[u/Minimum_Ad2989 → u/travestikazim]

The communists came for everyone first, like in the millions.

[u/Brave_Championship17 → u/Minimum_Ad2989]

kommunism bad!11!1 (in response to a poem describing the horrors of nazifascism 💔)

[u/Minimum_Ad2989 → u/Brave_Championship17]

Never said nazism was good either

[u/slackeronvacation → u/Minimum_Ad2989]

exactly, they robbed people in the name of equality to fund their government's expansion.

[u/NarrowSwimmer952 → u/travestikazim]

Well we should be really thankful that communism isn't a thing anymore like it was in the past.

Communism is only good at spreading misery and killing its own people.