First 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 for me.
~Pastor Martin Niemöller
So, don't tell me about how the Hispanics are different from the Jews. Don't try to explain to me how Donald Trump is different from Adolf Hitler. Don't try to explain to me how
these detainment camps have been different from the 1930s concentration camps run by the Germans prior to Kristallnacht.
I
will speak out for the Hispanics, for the Homosexuals, for the Transmen and Transwomen, for the Disabled. And I will want to know why
you are not speaking out against somebody whose excuse is "they were breaking the law," as if the law were moral and as if they were equally banal, but certain, in their judgment against those in power who break the law, which they most assuredly are not.
And no, even if your read of the economy were correct (which it is not), "I support the group responsible for atrocities because I
like their economic and immigration policies" is still a morally bankrupt position.
Nor is it a matter, as Luee and Ward and Ham like to put it, of your disagreeing with me about politics. It is a matter of human decency. Or perhaps I should say
inhumanity.