After blasting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as “mentally ill,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene went on to compare being required to wear a mask to Jewish people being forced to wear identifying markers and being “taken to gas chambers.”
“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, so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany. And this is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about,” she told Real America’s Voice on Friday.
Greene was one of multiple Republican lawmakers to receive a warning this past week about refusals to wear masks. While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has changed their mask guidance to say fully vaccinated individuals are free to not wear masks indoors and outdoors, Pelosi has said lawmakers and staff will still be required to mask up on the House floor until everyone is vaccinated. Recent reports have indicated Democrats in both the House and Senate are completely vaccinated, while Republican numbers are lagging by comparison.
Greene’s Nazi Germany rant are only the latest words to land her in hot water with critics. Many took to social media to blast the divisive Republican for the extremeness of her comparison.
“The last time my grandmother saw any of her family alive was when she was 13, and they were brought to a Holocaust death camp, and she was separated from them by ‘luck.’ But to Marjorie Taylor Greene, this is the equivalent of COVID restrictions on the House Floor,” one user wrote in reaction.
Marge Greene compared mask mandates to the Holocaust, and @GOPLeader is keeping her in office. Never forget that.
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) May 22, 2021
When Marjorie Taylor Greene compares getting vaccinated to the genocide endured by the Jews during the Holocaust, you can tell she doesn’t understand the history of either.
— John Collins