After the Holocaust comparison: Taylor Greene apologizes


According to the Holocaust comparison
Taylor Greene apologizes

Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene compares Corona measures several times with the Holocaust and thus causes outrage. Now she apologizes. The Trump supporter continues to adhere to other controversial statements.

Republican US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has apologized for comparisons between protective measures in the corona pandemic and the persecution of Jews by the Nazis. “One of the best lessons my father always taught me is that if you make a mistake, you should admit it,” said former US President Donald Trump’s supporter in Washington.

Greene said she was at the Holocaust Museum in the US capital that afternoon. Even as a young woman she dealt with the crimes of the National Socialists: during a visit to the memorial of the former German concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. “There is no comparison to the Holocaust and there are words I have said and remarks I have made that I know are offensive and I apologize for that,” Greene said.

The politician stuck to her criticism of Corona protective measures and an alleged “compulsory vaccination” – which does not exist in the USA. “I find that forced masks and forced vaccinations or vaccination certificates are a type of discrimination, and I am very much against that type of discrimination.” Among other things, Greene compared planned vaccination logos on name tags of employees of a supermarket with the fact that the Nazis had forced the wearing of Jewish stars.

Speaking in May of the US House of Representatives, Greene said of the mask requirement, “You know, we can look back at a time in history when people were told to wear a gold star and they were definitely treated like second-class citizens, like that very much that they were put on trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany. ”

With her repeated comparisons of the Corona measures with the systematic murder of six million Jews, Greene had triggered outrage across party lines and turned her own faction leadership against her. She also publicly advertised the so-called QAnon conspiracy theories several times. Its supporters believe, for example, that Trump tried to expose systematic child abuse by satanist politicians of the US Democrats.

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