German call to ban 'Jewish star' at Covid demos

[Behind the Aegis]

Source: BBC

Some protesters have replaced the word "Jude" (Jew) with the phrase "ungeimpft" (unvaccinated), equating Covid restrictions with the persecution of Europe's Jewish population.

The yellow Star of David has also been seen in protests in London.

Mr Klein said he hoped German cities would follow Munich in banning it.

"If people pin so-called Jewish stars on themselves in demonstrations, thereby drawing comparisons that relativise the Holocaust, then the means provided by law should be applied against them," he told Tagesspiegel newspaper.

The Nazis made wearing the yellow Star of David badge mandatory throughout territories they occupied, dehumanising Jews by marking them out as different. Anyone found without one faced a fine, prison or death.



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[Haggard Celine]

1. If they're ticketed for wearing one of those stars,

the judge should make them take a tour of a concentration camp at their own expense.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. It might help. It's been about 60 years since I visited Dachau.

I think it's one of those things that I will ...

Never Forget.

[Haggard Celine]

3. I've never been to Europe, but the pictures I've seen

of those camps after they were liberated is enough for me. The people being tortured and killed in those places must have thought they were in someplace worse than Hell. It sickens me to see people making that look like it was just an example of people being shunned.

[COL Mustard]

12. Dachau Is One Of The Spookiest Places I've Ever Been

You can almost sense the departed there. And although it's one of the more notorious camps, there was a whole network of them across Germany and France that are worth visiting if you're ever there. You can see how widespread that evil was, and could be again.

[ripcord]

15. I was there in 1978

Knowing the history I had trouble getting past the sign on the gate.

[AZLD4Candidate]

4. As a Jew and a family of Holocaust survivors, I quote from the movie Exodus

"It doesn't matter. When the chips are down, they all will turn on us too. We have no friends."

Paul Newman's words were prophetic.

[FakeNoose]

13. I'm sorry, this has nothing to do with the Holocaust

These are just assholes being assholes. They can't help it.

I'm not even sure there are Germans involved with this, because German people are actually quite sensitive about anything having to do with the Nazi Era. People who think like Nazis, really have nothing to do with Nazis, they're just crazy jerks. They're the bullies who jump to get the first punch in, because they know they can't win the fight.

[AZLD4Candidate]

14. Replacing "Jew" with "unvaccinated" strikes up the idea that the ones refusing to be unvaccinated

are suffering as hard as my people did in the Holocaust.

Yes, the Holocaust as a lot of do with it.

[FakeNoose]

17. OK you're right that it's a stupid, callous analogy

But I'm saying that we need to get past the knee-jerk emotional response to false references to the Nazis and the Holocaust. They use this false analogy because they know how to play you.

Unvaccinated people have nothing whatever to do with the Holocaust. Don't let them jerk you. These people have no sympathy for the Jewish people. Remember what they said in Charlottesville VA a couple years ago? "Jews will not replace us."

WTF? These assholes have no solidarity with "Jews" or anybody else.

Next they're going to say that Martin Luther King Jr. was against vaccination. They're assholes.

[AZLD4Candidate]

19. I think the entire analogy is beyond offensive to people who lost family in the Holocaust (like me)

[IronLionZion]

5. Freepers are all about this

after the insurrection, they've said that when the Gestapo comes looking for insurrectionists, liberals will point to the floorboards.

Freepers are claiming that any COVID mandates and vaccination mandates in particular are segregation.

[Mr.Bill]

11. I would tell the when the Gestapo comes

they won't be looking for insurectionists. They will be the insurectionists.

[Solly Mack]

6. K&R

They should be banned from use for such purposes (Covid-19 demonstrations and other, equally offensive and ignorant, demonstrations).

Assholes using it to suggest their anti-vaccine ignorance being rightly ridiculed makes them the same as victims of the Holocaust should be smacked sillier than they already are.

[Skittles]

7. this is why I never wonder if they can go any lower

they will ALWAYS find a way to go lower

[LymphocyteLover]

8. Israel is vaccinating the heck out of their population so these dumb anti-vaxxers need to STFU

[sheepfarm]

9. In a wierd way, they're actually doing a useful service appropriating such symbolism...

...in that you're telling me you're a total arsehole that no reasonable person should associate with you.

You can also bet that they bang on about "virtue signalling" while missing the irony here.

[groundloop]

10. I'd actually prefer that such assholes stay under their rocks.....

where their hatred and ignorance can't spread as quickly.

[Initech]

16. Anti-vaxxers have sunk to a new low.

[JudyM]

18. .

[LeftishBrit]

20. Fucking disgusting

It's not just Germany; happening with nutters everywhere - certainly a few in the UK. Because seeking to control a pandemic is exactly the same thing as the racist persecution and murder of Jews.

[LudwigPastorius]

21. I'd like to see the overlap in a Venn diagram of anti-vaxxers and...

right wing deplorables.

I bet it's huge.

[apnu]

22. but not a full overlap

There are some anti-vaxxers who aren't nazis. Not sure how many these days, but I know its not 100% coverage.