"THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up."


Now I'm not comparing Arizona to Nazi Germany, as most conservatives here wouldn't hesitate to do (and have done), were the shoe on the other foot, but there are some undeniable paralleles: a group of people is being singled out based mainly on their appearance, and some of us being perfectly fine with it primarily because we don't think it could happen to us.