Washington lawmaker wears yellow Star of David to protest COVID vaccine mandates

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A Washington state lawmaker critical of COVID-19 vaccine mandates wore a yellow Star of David at a speech over the weekend — a symbol the Nazis forced Jews to wear during the Holocaust.

State Rep. Jim Walsh, R-Aberdeen, had the star affixed to his pink shirt during a speech to conservative activists at a Lacey church basketball gym on Saturday.

“It’s an echo from history,” Walsh wrote on a Facebook page where a video of the event was posted. “In the current context, we’re all Jews.”


https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/washington-lawmaker-wears-gold-star-of-david-evoking-nazi-persecution-to-protest-covid-vaccine-mandates/

[maxsolomon]

1. Send him to Critical Race Theory Indoctrination Camp

Dude probably knows ZERO Jewish people.

[Grokenstein]

2. "It got the OTHER asshole a lot of attention! So I figure, why not?"

[keithbvadu2]

3. Then you are also all homosexuals, gypsies, criminals and more.

Then you are also all homosexuals, gypsies, criminals and more.

Criminals were marked with green inverted triangles, political prisoners with red, "asocials" (including Roma, View This Term in the Glossary nonconformists, vagrants, and other groups) with black or—in the case of Roma in some camps—brown triangles. Homosexuals were identified with pink triangles and Jehovah's Witnesses with purple ones. Non-German prisoners were identified by the first letter of the German name for their home country, which was sewn onto their badge. The two triangles forming the Jewish star badge would both be yellow unless the Jewish prisoner was included in one of the other prisoner categories. A Jewish political prisoner, for example, would be identified with a yellow triangle beneath a red triangle.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/classification-system-in-nazi-concentration-camps

[Marcuse]

4. If he really wants to impress, he should continue his simulation through its logical conclusion.

[70sEraVet]

5. The jerk says, "I can't control who is offended by what."

He should be made to wear the number of his IQ.

[Initech]

6. These are the people who can go eat shit.

[bahboo]

7. what a vile piece of shit....

[ailsagirl]

8. What an ignominious...

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and utter disgrace for anyone to wear the Star of David in such an exploitative manner. This is so far beyond the pale.

[struggle4progress]

9. COVID-19 Vaccine FAQ: Will the COVID-19 vaccine be mandatory?

It will be your choice whether to get the vaccine for COVID-19. Washington is not currently considering any mandates for the vaccine, but employers could require it.
https://www.doh.wa.gov/Emergencies/COVID19/VaccineInformation/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#heading62109

[struggle4progress]

10. COVID-19 Vaccine

The COVID-19 vaccine is available to people 12 years and older.
https://www.doh.wa.gov/Emergencies/COVID19/vaccine

[Solly Mack]

11. He needs a good smacking

Yeah, yeah. Violence is wrong.

I'm not advocating that someone actually smack him. Just that he needs one.

[struggle4progress]

12. Lawmaker apologises

By Virginia Chamlee
July 01, 2021 02:39 PM

A Washington lawmaker is apologizing after he donned a yellow star of David as a means of protesting restrictions put in place to contain the spread of COVID-19 ...

"It is deeply offensive and discounts the painful history of marginalized communities," ADL chapter Director Miri Cypers said in a statement released Wednesday. "There is simply no comparison for the systematic murder of six million Jews and the segregation of the African American community that has lasting impacts to today" ...

The Seattle-based Holocaust Center for Humanity said that Walsh trivialized the Holocaust and distorted history also weighed in on the lawmaker's actions, telling The Seattle Times: "Our government is making an effort to protect their own citizens, not kill them. It not only trivializes it, it distorts history" ...

Republican state Rep. Drew Stokesbary tweeted: "Encouraging vaccination against a virus that killed 600,000 Americans is the *opposite* of Nazi persecution of Jews. Equating them trivializes the Shoah, devalues the lives and memories of 6 million people systematically slaughtered, and brings unnecessary pain to their families" ...

https://people.com/politics/washington-lawmaker-apologizes-for-protesting-covid-restrictions-with-yellow-star/

[RVN VET71]

13. Someone find this fool a jittery mohel!

Actually, he should give me a call. If he wants to play at being a jew, I’ll play his j-j-jittery circumcizer.

As the Beatles might have sung it “All the marching morons, where do they all come from?” (Apologies to C.M. Kornbluth and the Fab Four)

[mdbl]

14. It just proves you have to be a real weirdo to be Repuglican

Will that party ever be half-normal again?