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Your story is relevant and what you went through is horrible, but you may want to practice telling it in a clear and concise way. At first glance your post soun

Your story is relevant and what you went through is horrible, but you may want to practice telling it in a clear and concise way. At first glance your post sounds like a crazy person rant, and it would be unfortunate for people to brush you off without actually reading your post.

daniel-cussen 4y ago
It wasn't horrible because I did something about it. It wasn't a tragedy. I am in fact practicing (EDIT: this came out wrong, I meant attempting) clarity and concision. So listening to other people's tragedies and what they went through--which always comes out rant-like--is helping me tell my piece the right way, with absolute adhesion to the truth. Partly that's a scam, they show you a cartoon of a madman and tell you "that's why he's mad, sweating, screaming, shaking, accusing, because he's stupid" then after that inb4, that poisoning of the well, nobody respects that stereotype until it's you who's mad, sweating, screaming, shaking, accusing, and being called stupid. And then it's too late. First they came for the Jews right? Wrong, first they came for the madmen, and perfected their extermination techniques with them, and nobody said anything, nobody visited them. And then they came for the Jews, and then everybody else. I remember it starting with the Jews, in Holocaust museums it starts with communists, in America it starts with Jews sometimes and Socialists other times, it changes all the time. But it never ever starts with the mad (Although Communist is close enough, they were thoroughly accused of being mad, Salvador Allende did medical research on the subject to vindicate them). Putting it here in full, best I can do: . . [0th they came for the ranting crazy persons to figure out all the ins and outs of abduction and execution but I won't even include them in this poem Because I was not and still am not a crazy person] . 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
lofatdairy 4y ago
I know I'm replying nearly a week later but I just wanted to acknowledge how helpful and compassionate your comment is. Granted, based on the reply you received I'm not sure if you managed to reach the parent poster, but it's always nice to see genuine kindness on the internet.

daniel-cussen 4y ago

It wasn't horrible because I did something about it. It wasn't a tragedy. I am in fact practicing (EDIT: this came out wrong, I meant attempting) clarity and concision. So listening to other people's tragedies and what they went through--which always comes out rant-like--is helping me tell my piece the right way, with absolute adhesion to the truth. Partly that's a scam, they show you a cartoon of a madman and tell you "that's why he's mad, sweating, screaming, shaking, accusing, because he's stupid" then after that inb4, that poisoning of the well, nobody respects that stereotype until it's you who's mad, sweating, screaming, shaking, accusing, and being called stupid. And then it's too late. First they came for the Jews right? Wrong, first they came for the madmen, and perfected their extermination techniques with them, and nobody said anything, nobody visited them. And then they came for the Jews, and then everybody else. I remember it starting with the Jews, in Holocaust museums it starts with communists, in America it starts with Jews sometimes and Socialists other times, it changes all the time. But it never ever starts with the mad (Although Communist is close enough, they were thoroughly accused of being mad, Salvador Allende did medical research on the subject to vindicate them). Putting it here in full, best I can do: . . [0th they came for the ranting crazy persons to figure out all the ins and outs of abduction and execution but I won't even include them in this poem Because I was not and still am not a crazy person] . 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

lofatdairy 4y ago

I know I'm replying nearly a week later but I just wanted to acknowledge how helpful and compassionate your comment is. Granted, based on the reply you received I'm not sure if you managed to reach the parent poster, but it's always nice to see genuine kindness on the internet.