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Title : OMG, Sophie Scholl is My New Shero
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OMG, Sophie Scholl is My New Shero
Full confession.I had no idea who Sophie Scholl was until this past week, when a friend messaged me this photo from somewhere in cyberspace. I think she sent it to me because I often fume that too few people in positions of power and privilege are willing to take the risks necessary to advance social justice and advocate for real change in the world.
Sophie Scholl’s very last words reflect the same sentiment, so I immediately went down an internet rabbit hole to read about her life, and to say this woman (a girl, really) was a bad bitch is the understatement of the century.
She’s been on my mind ever since.
You can go on Wikipedia yourself for her whole life story, but the gist is she was a Lutheran white girl in Nazi Germany who was having less than none of the Third Reich’s efforts to Hitler youth-ify her, and basically spend her very short life non-violently and intellectually resisting dictatorship as part of the White Rose Society. She was ultimately arrested for distributing anti-Nazi literature, convicted in a snow trial, and executed a mere hours later by guilliotine.
Seriously you guys. Nazis chopped off a 21 year-old girl’s head for passing out written opposition to their genocidal bullshit! And by all accounts, Sophie walked to the gallows with her soon-to-be-decapitated head held high and these words on her lips:
The thing that amazes me the most is that she didn’t have to do this to save herself. She could have just been a Nazi. She wasn’t Jewish and she wasn’t at risk of being persecuted herself. She was simply a member of the dominant Aryan culture who recognized that what was happening around her was unbelievably fucked up, and she decided it was worth dying to show the world how fucked up it really was.
She’s been on my mind ever since.
You can go on Wikipedia yourself for her whole life story, but the gist is she was a Lutheran white girl in Nazi Germany who was having less than none of the Third Reich’s efforts to Hitler youth-ify her, and basically spend her very short life non-violently and intellectually resisting dictatorship as part of the White Rose Society. She was ultimately arrested for distributing anti-Nazi literature, convicted in a snow trial, and executed a mere hours later by guilliotine.
Seriously you guys. Nazis chopped off a 21 year-old girl’s head for passing out written opposition to their genocidal bullshit! And by all accounts, Sophie walked to the gallows with her soon-to-be-decapitated head held high and these words on her lips:
How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause? Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?Sophie Scholl was walking the walk of righteous wokeness before it was cool you guys, and she walked it straight to her own execution like it was NOTHING. Unlike me, who pretends to be badass AF getting called a cunt on the internet sometimes and enduring the occasional empty threat to my body and livelihood from wannabe Nazis, Sophie proudly marched to her death in an enormous fuck you to *actual* Nazis!
The thing that amazes me the most is that she didn’t have to do this to save herself. She could have just been a Nazi. She wasn’t Jewish and she wasn’t at risk of being persecuted herself. She was simply a member of the dominant Aryan culture who recognized that what was happening around her was unbelievably fucked up, and she decided it was worth dying to show the world how fucked up it really was.
Talk about next-level allyship.
The very least I can do is read her Wikipedia page and put her on blast as my new number one shero. Sophie Scholl is #ResistanceGoals.
The very least I can do is read her Wikipedia page and put her on blast as my new number one shero. Sophie Scholl is #ResistanceGoals.
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