I don't often read John Parry's column but found his article (Argus, February 9) on attacks on minorities excellent.
He quoted the famous phrase by the heroic Pastor Martin Niemoller, "First they came for the communists and I did not speak up. Next they came for the Jews and I did not speak up. Finally, they came for me", paraphrasing it in his own way. The pastor lost his life because he did speak up.
Today, we still have minorities being persecuted. Travellers are always "good targets" but now have been overtaken by asylum seekers.
They are always targeted in the press and media. Rational people cannot tolerate the constant scapegoating of minorities and find it incredible that we all know about genocides and the Holocaust, yet this intolerance continues.
Perhaps everyone should listen to a song by the Manic Street Preachers which contains the line "and if you tolerate this, then your children will be next..."
It doesn't have to be this way.
-Julie White, Highlands Road, Portslade
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