Capitol Rioters' Pity-Party Played the Nazi Card. Of Course.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Hundreds of demonstrators took to the United States Capitol grounds in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, demanding the release of people incarcerated in the wake of the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol attack that has led to hundreds of criminal cases and precious little reflection on the far right.

The event failed to draw the massive pro-Trump crowds who gathered in January, and the area was heavily patrolled by law enforcement. Attendees hit on the usual themes—complaining about the media, and portraying themselves as the victims of state persecution.

One speaker compared the treatment of the Capitol rioters—who included, infamously, a man wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt—to the persecution of Jews under Nazi rule. Calling the D.C. jail a “gulag,” she read off a letter that she said was from an imprisoned rioter, who complained, “this reminds me of how the Jewish people were treated by the Nazis.”

As the crowd gathered in the Union Square area of the Capitol grounds, “We Didn’t Start The Fire” by Billy Joel blared from speakers.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/capitol-riot-supporter-compares-insurrectionists-172330926.html

[WarGamer]

1. Historically illiterate.

[dchill]

3. ...by way of utter and complete projection.

[Irish_Dem]

6. It is truly mind boggling.

I hope the ghosts of WWII vets come back to haunt them.

[Irish_Dem]

2. As part of their sentence, they should be made to walk through the US Holocaust Museum in WashDC.

Maybe some reality will sink in.

[WarGamer]

5. Good idea...

I've always wished that we had more Auschwitz survivors in their 70's, young enough to tell great stories and the vigor to talk about it extensively. Unfortunately they're long gone... but there are terrific video records. (Yes I know there are some in their 90's)

I'd love to see a cretin-rube wannabee "Nazi" go face to face with a Holocaust survivor who was 15 years old and watched her parents and grandparents sent into the "left line" while she was sent down the "right line"...

The experience at a Bergen-Belsen at the hands of "the Beast"... would make the modern day wannabees sick.

[Irish_Dem]

7. I 'd like to see WWII Vets go up against these idiots.

WWII Vets risked their lives fighting the Nazis. They saw the evil first hand.

[paleotn]

4. Nuts are gonna be nuts.

I expected little else.

[Behind the Aegis]

8. People love to exploit/culturally appropriate Jewish suffering.

They do it as much as people ignore the exploitation and/or the actual suffering.