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Behind the Aegis

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Thu Apr 23, 2020, 05:44 AM Apr 2020

(Jewish Group) Statement on Comparisons of COVID-19 regulations to Hitler and Nazis

The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum deplores the resurgence of comparisons to Hitler and the Nazis by those unhappy with regulations issued during the COVID-19 emergency.

Some of those who oppose stay-at-home and shelter-in-place requirements have charged state officials with behaving like Hitler and imposing Nazi-style orders. One such accusation, made last week by an elected official in Idaho against that state’s governor, compared him to Hitler noting that in Nazi Germany “non-essential workers got put on a train.” For the record, Hitler and the Nazis put Jews on trains – men, women, and children – to their deaths, not because they were non-essential workers, but simply because they were Jewish.

This accusation is as disgraceful as it is historically insupportable and morally reprehensible. The deportation of Jews to their deaths by a totalitarian, racist, antisemitic regime stands as an unmatched horrific time in modern history. To compare this to the efforts of our elected officials to attempt to balance our health and economic needs while under threat from a worldwide pandemic cheapens the sacrifice of the millions of Jews murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators.

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I will hold my tongue.

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(Jewish Group) Statement on Comparisons of COVID-19 regulations to Hitler and Nazis (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Apr 2020 OP
By their deeds, they shall be known mercuryblues Apr 2020 #1
Some great people acc to Trump keithbvadu2 Apr 2020 #2

mercuryblues

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1. By their deeds, they shall be known
Thu Apr 23, 2020, 06:54 AM
Apr 2020

The Swastika flags they fly and tattoos they sport are a testament to where their loyalties are. Their only problem they are on the receiving end of their perceived injustice.

Make no mistake if only certain people were asked or ordered to stay home, they would be fine with it.

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