I’m unable to serve an administration that enables the atrocities in Gaza, so I have decided to resign from my position at the Department of State, writes Annelle Sheline.
“Authoritarians need obedient civil servants, and concentration camp directors seek businessmen interested in cheap labor. … If lawyers had followed the norm of no execution without trial, if doctors had accepted the rule of no surgery without consent, if businessmen had endorsed the prohibition of slavery, if bureaucrats had refused to handle paperwork involving murder, then the Nazi regime would have been much harder pressed to carry out the atrocities by which we remember it.” -Tim Snyder
(I’m not necessarily saying you’re wrong – I think it depends and I absolutely think there are times when staying and minimizing the damage is the right thing to do. But without really knowing much more than what she said, I sympathize with her quite a lot in her “fuck this, fuck my career, I can’t possibly be a party to this anymore”.)
“Authoritarians need obedient civil servants, and concentration camp directors seek businessmen interested in cheap labor. … If lawyers had followed the norm of no execution without trial, if doctors had accepted the rule of no surgery without consent, if businessmen had endorsed the prohibition of slavery, if bureaucrats had refused to handle paperwork involving murder, then the Nazi regime would have been much harder pressed to carry out the atrocities by which we remember it.” -Tim Snyder
(I’m not necessarily saying you’re wrong – I think it depends and I absolutely think there are times when staying and minimizing the damage is the right thing to do. But without really knowing much more than what she said, I sympathize with her quite a lot in her “fuck this, fuck my career, I can’t possibly be a party to this anymore”.)