Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) compared mask rules to prevent coronavirus to the Holocaust, and got ripped to shreds on social media.
The Georgia congresswoman told a conservative podcaster that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to require masks in the House chamber, where 100 percent of Democrats say they’ve been vaccinated but fewer than 45 percent of Republicans will disclose they have, was basically the same as the Nazi persecution and extermination of Jews.
“You know, we can look back at a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star, and they were definitely treated like second-class citizens, so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany,” Greene said, “and this is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about.”
Jewish groups quickly condemned Greene’s remarks, calling on her to immediately retract them and apologize, and social media users called her out, as well.
You can never compare health-related restrictions with yellow stars, gas chambers & other Nazi atrocities.
Such comparisons demean the Holocaust & contaminate American political speech.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene must immediately retract and apologize.https://t.co/pdU8H8h2tO
— American Jewish Congress (@AJCongress) May 21, 2021
I live in Marjorie Taylor Greene's district and I'm going to do everything I can do to make sure she is voted out. She is a vile and horrible human. She does not represent me.
— Jenny 2X4 (@QuiggsJenny) May 22, 2021
I’m shocked Marjorie Taylor-Greene compared wearing masks to the Holocaust.
I had no idea she believed the Holocaust was real.
— Mason Steinberg (@AlUCanEatShrimp) May 21, 2021
If you can't see the connection between Nazis in Charlottesville openly chanting "Jews Will Not Replace Us," and then Marjorie Taylor Greene spreading anti-semitic bile about the Holocaust just a few years later… then you're not paying attention.
— Jake Lobin (@JakeLobin) May 22, 2021
There may be something more offensive that Marjorie "Jewish Space Lasers" Taylor Greene, who just compared being asked to wear a mask to the death of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, holding a Magen David, but I cannot think what it would be. https://t.co/guF9vlxR2x
— Bill Prady ⚛️ Now at 🦋 (@billprady) May 21, 2021
Greene makes this ridiculous Holocaust comparison during a surge of antisemitic attacks. https://t.co/bso3979Hwj
— Ahmed Baba (@AhmedBaba_) May 21, 2021
The Holocaust: The systematic murder of 6 million Jews.
Mask-wearing: A simple act that costs you nothing and saves lives.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: A troubled person who is unfit to serve in Congress. https://t.co/pSEXRrqiTZ
— David Cicilline (@davidcicilline) May 21, 2021
I was going to do a sarcastic quote tweet on this but it's really too awful for that. https://t.co/kTlYdUPKfb
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) May 22, 2021
Anne Frank would be alive today if the Nazis hasn't put her in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where she died of typhus, for which there is no vaccine. The Holocaust was perpetrated by right-wing white nationalist Nazis like Marjorie Taylor Greene. https://t.co/Ep8NSU3Tgu
— Victoria Brownworth (@VABVOX) May 22, 2021
