Marjorie Taylor Greene has finally apologized for comparing wearing masks to the experience of Jews during the Holocaust, but not everyone is buying her remorse.
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“We can look back at a time in history where 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,” Greene said back in May. “And this is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about.”
Greene has quickly become known for egregiously offensive comments and aggressive attacks on anyone who disagrees with her, so when she was called out for the disgusting comparison, she initially doubled down.
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But after a trip to the Holocaust Museum, she immediately called a press conference to tell the country that the Holocaust “happened.”
“The Holocaust is—there’s nothing comparable to it. It’s—it happened, and, you know, over six million Jewish people were murdered,” Greene said, sharing what the rest of the country learned as school-age children. “But there is no comparison to the Holocaust. And there are words that I have said, remarks that I have made, that I know are offensive, and for that, I want to apologize.”
An apology from Greene is certainly a shocking moment, but that’s a low bar, and many folks aren’t satisfied with how it went.
The controversial representative seemed to, at one point, try to downplay the effect of the Holocaust on the Jewish people and reframe it, in part, as yet another attack on Christianity.
“More than that, there were not just Jewish people—Black people, Christians, all kinds of groups. Children,” she said. “People that the Nazis didn’t believe were good enough or perfect enough.”
While people of a variety of religions were ultimately killed by the Nazis, there’s no question that the Holocaust primarily and overwhelmingly targeted Jews. However, if Greene was really concerned about other groups that suffered during that time, perhaps the folks at the Holocaust museum could have told her that Romani people, as well people who were disabled or LGBTQ, were also targets of the Nazis.
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She also declined to walk back a statement she made comparing Democrats to Nazis, and actually went right back to doubling down on that one.
These things paired with the part where it shouldn’t have taken weeks and a trip to a museum to understand that the Holocaust was a whole lot more horrific in the world’s history than people being asked to wear masks around others so as not to accidentally kill people have left many questioning her sincerity — and understandably so, given all that we’ve experienced with Greene so far.
So Twitter called her out.
People issue fake apologies all the time. They mean nothing. Zero. Nada. Zilch. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a worthless, treasonous asshole, and the day I believe a fucking word that comes outta her mouth, you can put me in hospice because I’ll definitely be on my way out.
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Death Row Tull
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Lmao they made Marjorie Taylor Greene go on a field trip and then give a presentation about it like a god damn fifth grader
https://t.co/PJWhRBH592
— Evan (@EvanPlatinum) June 14, 2021
It is also of note that Greene’s press conference and apology were suspiciously timed just days before Illinois representative Brad Schneider plans to push Congress to censure Greene over her Holocaust/mask comparison specifically.
*First Published: June 15, 2021, 7:04 am
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