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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow low can these anti-vaxxers go? There seems to be no limit.
Anti-vaccine protesters likening themselves to Jews during the holocaust were harshly criticized on Saturday.
Nazis required Jews to wear yellow Jewish stars and other holocaust badges to the lands they controlled during World War II.
Twitter user Chloe Adelstone posted a picture of a man in the United Kingdom misappropriating the symbol. She said, "I shouted at them and they told me I was a Nazi for wearing a mask."
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
The Auschwitz Memorial blasted the anti-vaxx activists.
"Instrumentalization of the tragedy of Jews who suffered, were humiliated, marked with a yellow star, and finally isolated in ghettos and murdered during the Holocaust, in order to argue against vaccination that saves human lives is a sad symptom of moral and intellectual decline," the museum wrote.
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-vaccine protesters were misappropriating the symbol.
"In recent months, some anti-vaccine activists (known as anti-vaxxers) have appropriated the yellow Star of David badge, which some European Jews were required to wear during the Holocaust, to symbolize their 'persecution' at the hands of government vaccine rules," the Anti-Defamation League reported in April of 2019. "The stars, emblazoned with the stylized words 'No Vax,' are showing up on social media, especially on Facebook, and at anti-vaccine events. This is a hugely inappropriate use of this enduring symbol of the persecution of Jews by the Nazis during World War II and minimizes and trivializes the experiences of the survivors and victims of the Holocaust."
https://www.rawstory.com/anti-vaxxer-2652768548/
lapucelle
(18,419 posts)marble falls
(57,756 posts)Colgate 64
(14,732 posts)-misanthroptimist
(834 posts)They've identified themselves as hideously ignorant, offensive, and stupid. Could be a time saver for the rest of us.
sheshe2
(84,122 posts)Initech
(100,165 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,219 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,483 posts)Sogo
(5,029 posts)Schmice3
(294 posts)Sogo
(5,029 posts)KS Toronado
(17,517 posts)" Jews will not replace us "? or " Jews don't need vaccine "?
BigmanPigman
(51,694 posts)like the Scarlet Letter A. We need to shame THEM big time. Turn it around and make them the center of negative attention. We need to be more vocal and call them out since they are the ones on the wrong side of the argument/science. We should make them feel like shit for being so selfish.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)camps just like the those who lived around the camps and had to know what was happening were forced by the Allied forces to walk through the camps to witness the carnage.
FakeNoose
(32,956 posts)What is this guy wearing, a Jewish star? Like this is 1938? Like this is Germany?
Retired Engineer Bob
(759 posts)Are not limited to the US. They truly feel they are the most victimized folks in the history of humanity. Even the Jewish folks of 1940s Europe had it easy compared to the poor victimized me.
Please allow me a few minutes to puke 🤮 in disgust.
Rizen
(728 posts)Phoenix61
(17,031 posts)amb123
(1,581 posts)by the end of the upcoming week. You can count on it.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,585 posts)Great call!
George II
(67,782 posts)ShazzieB
(16,701 posts)Those two are just brainless and tone deaf enough to do it, too.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,585 posts)....to where they can learn about the Holocaust. Maybe waterboard them a little, just while you've got them there.
ThatJustHappened
(78 posts)Wanting to burn it all down
And destroy the entire world
To help self fulfill
The End Times
For Imaginary Sky Daddy
And imaginary afterlife eternal
Via the God Delusion
That's what this all
Comes down to
Is that low enough for ya?
ShazzieB
(16,701 posts)While I kind of like the idea of the covidiots wearing an identifying label as someone commented, this is a HUGE, gigantic, nauseating slap in the face to all Jews, especially holocaust survivors and their families, as well as all if those who lost family members in the holocaust (which would be most Ashkenazi Jews, if I'm not mistaken).
Go ahead and wear a sign if you want to, covidiots. You want to make my life easier by showing me which knuckleheads to give a wide berth to? Knock yourselves out. But for the love of all that's good and decent, PLEASE find a way to do it without making a mockery of the deaths of millions of people and the profound suffering of countless millions more.
God, this REALLY UPSETS me. I'm mad enough to chew nails! AAARRGGHH.