Marjorie Taylor Greene (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)
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.\n\nSuch comparisons demean the Holocaust & contaminate American political speech.\n\nRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene must immediately retract and apologize.https://justthenews.com/government/congress/rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-house-speaker-nancy-pelosi-mentally-ill\u00a0\u2026— American Jewish Congress (@American Jewish Congress) 1621603796
This is antisemitism. Comparing the suffering of Jews in the Holocaust to being asked to wear a mask is antisemitic. Now which brave Israel defenders will condemn Greene?https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1395894122569945088\u00a0\u2026— The Rude Pundit (@The Rude Pundit) 1621643959
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.— Jen is fully vaccinated (@Jen is fully vaccinated) 1621643383
I\u2019m shocked Marjorie Taylor-Greene compared wearing masks to the Holocaust.\n\nI had no idea she believed the Holocaust was real.— Mason Steinberg (@Mason Steinberg) 1621640710
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 (@Jake Lobin) 1621657286
I don't think Marjorie Taylor Greene understands what the Holocaust was.— Devon (@Devon) 1621648118
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://twitter.com/JustTheNews/status/1395499503592017920\u00a0\u2026— Bill Prady (@Bill Prady) 1621611036
Maybe the reason people like Marjorie Taylor Greene think mask wearing is as bad as the Holocaust is because we don\u2019t have statues of Hitler on her local town square for her to learn history from. Thanks a lot, Woke Mob! You made it so MTG doesn\u2019t know history!— Brando (@Brando) 1621682008
I assume Greene also has to wear shoes in the Capitol. Are shoes now the Holocaust?https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1395894122569945088\u00a0\u2026— Stephen Robinson (@Stephen Robinson) 1621661055
Greene makes this ridiculous Holocaust comparison during a surge of antisemitic attacks.https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1395886123528986635\u00a0\u2026— Ahmed Baba (@Ahmed Baba) 1621640287
The Holocaust: The systematic murder of 6 million Jews.\n\nMask-wearing: A simple act that costs you nothing and saves lives.\n\nMarjorie Taylor Greene: A troubled person who is unfit to serve in Congress.https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/21/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-mask-mandates-holocaust/index.html\u00a0\u2026— David Cicilline (@David Cicilline) 1621631746
Marjorie Taylor Greene says Speaker Pelosi wanting unvaccinated Members of Congress to wear masks is \u201cexactly the type of abuse\u201d as murdering Jews in gas chambers during the Holocaust. Can\u2019t put into words how foolish, sickening and antisemitic this is.pic.twitter.com/botv7sJRqw— Wirjil (@Wirjil) 1621664889
As a Jewish American and 3rd generation Holocaust survivor, I am DISGUSTED by Rep. Greene's erroneous analogy.\n\nCongresswoman Greene, most of my family were murdered by Nazis, they didn't HAVE a choice.https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1395894122569945088\u00a0\u2026— Peter Morley (@Peter Morley) 1621657673
I was going to do a sarcastic quote tweet on this but it's really too awful for that.https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1395894122569945088\u00a0\u2026— George Conway (@George Conway) 1621642506
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://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1395894122569945088\u00a0\u2026— Victoria Brownworth (@Victoria Brownworth) 1621658746
