Some wore a yellow star
More than 100,000 people took to the streets across France over the weekend to protest against President Emmanuel Macron’s tough new vaccination strategy, which will restrict access to restaurants, cafes, movie theaters, long-distance trains and more for the unvaccinated.
More than a hundred thousand people took to the streets to protest measures to prevent the spread of a virus that kills.
Why are people so stupid?
Demonstrators in Paris and elsewhere vented against what some called Mr. Macron’s “dictatorship” after he announced that a “health pass” — official proof of vaccination, a recent negative test, or recent Covid-19 recovery — would be required for many to attend or enter most public events and venues.
That’s just stupid. It’s not dictatorship, it’s emergency measures in an emergency. Remember when the Nazis occupied Paris? Now that was dictatorship. This is not.
Lots of people are rushing to get the vax though. Allons enfants.
Some protesters caused particular outrage after drawing parallels between their situation and that of the Jews during the Holocaust. Some wore a yellow star that said “nonvaccinated,” others carried signs or shouted slogans that compared the health pass to a Nazi-era measure.
“This comparison is abhorrent,” said Joseph Szwarc, 94, a Holocaust survivor who was speaking on Sunday as France commemorated the victims of racist or anti-Semitic acts by the Vichy government.
“I wore the star, I know what it is, I still have it in my flesh,” said Mr. Szwarc said at a ceremony in Paris.
Justement.
The implication being that the Jews could have escaped torture and mass execution by getting some sort of vaccine against their racial heritage but chose not to?
People who want to be persecuted don’t think these things through, don’t examine the ethics of their hurt feelings in comparison to the serious nature of the Holocaust. And how many of these vaccine deniers are also holocaust deniers? (Rhetorical question.)
People who want to be seen as persecuted, that is – people who want to cosplay being persecuted. They don’t actually want to be it, they’d much rather be the ones who do it.
Right – thanks for clarifying.
OB@2,
Right, and claiming persecution means you can brand your own aggression towards others as “self-defense.”
People seem to be calling me a nazi quite a lot on Twitter recently and when people pop up to say don’t do that because of the pain you cause survivors and their families and the whole trivialisation of the brutal genocide of an entire people…. they act extra persecuted because someone has politely asked them to consider people who might actually have something to complain about.
They think they’re extra persecuted because someone reminded them of actually persecuted people. Patience is something I have a lot of, but it is wearing thinner than anything I have a simile handy for with these people.