Oklahoma GOP Chairman John Bennett defends likening vaccine passports to the Star of David.

[Nevilledog]

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Oklahoma GOP Chairman John Bennett defends likening vaccine passports to the Star of David.



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A post on the party’s official Facebook page eatured a picture of a yellow Star of David with the word “unvaccinated” on it https://huffpost.com/entry/oklahoma-gop-vaccine-mandates-yellow-star_n_610483b5e4b0d3b5897db66a?d_id=2449872&ncid_tag=tweetlnkushpmg00000016&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=us_politics…
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Republican Party faced fierce criticism on Friday for a Facebook post likening COVID-19 vaccine mandates to the persecution of Jewish people in Nazi Germany.

The post on the party’s official Facebook page urged people to call the lieutenant governor and ask him to call a special session to prohibit employers from requiring their employees to get vaccinated. It featured a picture of a yellow Star of David with the word “unvaccinated” on it and said: “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.”

Roberta Clark, executive director of the Jewish Federation of Greater Oklahoma City, called the post “highly inappropriate” and urged party officials to apologize.

“To compare the actions taken by Nazi Germany to a public health discussion is ill-informed and inappropriate,” Clark said. “An apology is really appropriate, and it shows leadership and sensitivity to the harmful impact this has made.”

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[Botany]

1. Now why would I think that Oklahoma GOP Chairman John Bennett is a dick?

[Nevilledog]

2. Big man has to have a gun on his desk......

[Botany]

4. That looks like a .44 caliber automatic because a .9 mm is just not big enough to stop the ...

... headless zombie army as it attacks his office. Dickless wonder. I have hunted and owned a
FEW shotguns and rifles for years and i hate these stupid gun humpers.

[dalton99a]

13. +1

[Solly Mack]

3. How is it possible to be that ignorant?

Books. The Library. Museums.

The knowledge is out there.

[Grokenstein]

5. You can point a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think.

But I don't think he's ignorant of the issue.
He's doing it quite deliberately.

[Solly Mack]

7. I don't know. Too many of them don't know the difference.

Or think they're interchangeable.

(Fascism/Communism)

As for the flat out anti-Semitism? They don't care. Jewish people are weapons to them, not real people. Either it's all end-of-times must protect Israel for Jesus, used as "proof" they love Jewish people, or it's George Soros is the root of all evil all day and all night.

And I don't think they see the bigotry either way.

Some do it on purpose, I think.

Just not all.

[Behind the Aegis]

8. You get it!

As for the flat out anti-Semitism? They don't care. Jewish people are weapons to them, not real people.

Yup! I know I certainly feel that way. It is a form of cultural appropriation, but it is also a form of minimalization, which unfortunately, is something akin to denial, and has become very popular among certain sectors.

[Solly Mack]

12. I'm sorry you experience those feelings. Bigotry and hate crush the spirit.

You can get angry, you can fight back - but the pain is always there from it. The sting of it.

Oh, now, see - Your talking about the cultural appropriation of it all will drive people nuts. They see themselves as the perfection of monotheism.

It is indeed a form of minimization and denial.

[GulfCoast66]

9. Totally correct. I grew up evangelical. They love and support Israel because their crazy prophecy

But on an individual level the are generally anti Semitic. They only like a Jewish person when they become a Christian. I’ve seen it first hand.

[Solly Mack]

11. I grew up in Georgia and I know exactly what you're saying.

I got whiplash hearing some folks talk about Jewish people. They don't even hear how discordant their beliefs are one from the other. They believe both firmly and think both are facts - and to their thinking, if it is a "fact", how can they be prejudice?

They dismiss the term stereotype the same way (when called on it). If it's true, then it's not a stereotype.

It's mind boggling.

[Volaris]

6. I keep thinking they're not dumb enough to pick a fight with the Free Market.

They keep proving me wrong lol.

[keithbvadu2]

10. also likening COVID-19 vaccine mandates to the persecution of homosexuals and Gypsies in Nazi Germa

Then they are also likening COVID-19 vaccine mandates to the persecution of homosexuals and Gypsies in Nazi Germany.

Is he going to wear a pink symbol?

[Marthe48]

14. Does is f.a. realize

You would be way more likely to die a horrible death wearing Star of David, than a mask.

Why, oh, why, doesn't the anti-mask fad go away like other fads!