Genocides are memorable because they are, mercifully, aberrations in the modern world, yet comparisons to them in political discourse are becoming ever more common. People must stop cheapening tragedies for political gain.
Genocides are memorable because they are, mercifully, aberrations in the modern world, yet comparisons to them in political discourse are becoming ever more common. People must stop cheapening tragedies for political gain. Modern political.
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Despite condemnation from her own party, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is standing by her comments equating congressional face mask requirements with the discrimination against Jews in Nazi Germany leading up to the Holocaust.
House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy condemned Greene s initial comments Tuesday several days after she made them. He called them wrong and appalling.
The Senate s first Jewish majority leader Sen. Chuck Schumer expressed his outrage Tuesday. These are sickening reprehensible comments and she [Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene] should stop this vile language immediately, Schumer said.
House lawmakers, including 11 Republicans, voted to strip Greene of her committee assignments earlier this year for previous violent and conspiracy-theory-driven comments she made.
The View co-host
Joy Behar and on Monday, the conservative firebrand even lashed out at
Whoopi Goldberg. McCain has been at the center of a lot of arguments on the hot topics discussion show since her return from maternity leave earlier this year.
Monday’s episode of
The View heavily featured Meghan McCain’s arguments, first with Whoopi Goldberg and then with Joy Behar. As the ladies discussed controversial Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s comments where she compared a mask mandate to the Holocaust, McCain grew more and more agitated.
“I would love if the energy that is being put on one crazy woman in Congress,” McCain interjected, “I would love Democrats to put that same type of energy onto what’s happening on the left, because quite frankly, this is how people get red-pilled.” The conservative co-host then added, “Anti-Semitism is a huge problem everywhere in this country.” Goldberg took back control of the discussion and tried to cut to a comm