“First they came for” Als sie kamen lit. ‘When they came’, or Habe ich geschwiegen lit. ‘I did not speak out’), is the poetic form of a 1946 post-war confessional prose piece by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984). It is about the silent complicity of German intellectuals and clergy following the Nazis’ rise to power and subsequent incremental purging of their chosen targets.
Diary of Anne Frank
Sunday April 6, 2025
Malala Yousafzai is not dead today. Yet, everybody still grey-rocks what she has to say. I find nothing wrong with Malala’s language. I find nothing wrong with her priorities and emphasis of what is important. Yet, everybody avoid her. Her words are just clicks away: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7064545.Malala_Yousafzai
Yet, every time JD Vance makes it onto social media systems: couch couch couch, every time Donald Trump photograph spears: orange skin. Every thing Elon Musk does… people flock.
There is no goodness being asserted. People are attracted to mocking Elon Musk and mocking Donald Trump and mocking MAGA and mocking GOP and mocking USA. They are not spending their free time promoting goodness in the face of rising bad.
I can’t find anything wrong with Malala’s words. The problem is people’s attraction / where they turn their heads to gaze - into the shit producers. We hav a cult behavior problem. People are in cults of bad shit.
Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, people are flocking.
Malala Yousafzai is intelligent. She articulates issues clearly. She describes the problems of people not understanding each other, learning, teaching, education.
She doesn’t shit-talk people like Donald Trump does. So she isn’t nearly as popular as Donald Trump. She doesn’t shit-talk people like Vald Putin does. She doesn’t shit-talk human beings like Elon Musk does in favor of machines of xAI and Tesla motors.
Palestine supporters / Israel supporters. They do not want to face the problems that Malala is articulating and describing. They just avoid it by avoiding her words.
“I couldn’t understand what the Taliban were trying to do. “They are abusing our religion,” I said in interviews. “How will you accept Islam if I put a gun to your head and say Islam is the true religion? If they want every person in the world to be Muslim, why don’t they show themselves to be good Muslims first?” ― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. October 7, 2013.