Auschwitz memorial condemns presence of Nazi slogan at US anti-lockdown rally

[mucifer]

The organisation that runs the Auschwitz memorial has condemned the appearance at a US anti-lockdown rally of a picket sign bearing a Nazi slogan displayed above the entrance of the concentration camp.

A demonstrator attending a rally in Illinois, where hundreds of people protested against the state’s lockdown and social distancing measures, was photographed carrying a sign bearing the words “Arbeit macht frei, JB”. The German phrase translates as “work sets you free”, with JB referring to the Illinois governor, JB Pritzker, who is of Jewish descent.

The font of both instances of the letter “B” on the picket sign bore a striking resemblance to the shape of the letter “B” on the sign above the gates of Auschwitz, the largest of the German Nazi concentration camps and extermination centres, where more than 1.1 million men, women and children were murdered.

Another demonstrator at the same rally was reportedly seen holding up a picket sign bearing a swastika and the words: “Heil, Pritzker.”

David Harris, CEO of the American Jewish Committee, said in a tweet: “Those words – Work Sets You Free – were a savage Nazi hoax for slave labor and gas chambers. JB in the sign refers to state’s Jewish governor. Shameful. Shocking. Sickening.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/02/auschwitz-memorial-condemns-nazi-slogan-illinois-coronavirus-rally

[FirstLight]

1. ...are we surprised?

These people are just like the ones in CHarlottesville... It's scary how many racists are coming out of the woodwork now that the Anus in chief has given them a free pass.

Those gun carrying assholes should have been arrested...at best

[riversedge]

3. Obviously, MI has open carry just like WI does.

[Chainfire]

5. The states need to change the laws (like Canada just did) not likely.....

I is difficult to arrest people for carrying guns when it is not violating laws to do so.

I would think that would be something people here would understand. Do you really want law enforcement officers, who are generally quite conservative, making up laws on the fly? Do want the police to possibly shoot the people who are legally demonstrating? (warning, these are trick questions) I despise the people and the message that they are putting out, but I would fight for their right to do so.

These states have knuckled under to the NRA and now they are reaping the rewards. The states granted more rights to the people than the people can responsibly handle. The people carrying the guns are the symptoms, the lawmakers are the disease.

[riversedge]

2. Photos from the #TrumpRally---I do not see a facemask on any of these people- NO #socialdistancing

signs are from a tweet included in story


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People hold signs during a protest against coronavirus lockdown measures in Chicago, Illinois. Photograph: Kamil Krzaczyński/AFP via Getty Images

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[murielm99]

4. These assholes don't know anything.

They don't know that Pritzker is Jewish. He does not make a big deal of it. He represents everyone.

[mucifer]

7. I think they know he's Jewish

[The Wizard]

6. Trump's Brownshirt Terrorist Army

casting Nazi aspersions on the Jewish governor. Irony on crack and steroids.