QAnon Rep Calls Vaccine Passports A “Mark Of The Beast” As Libertarians Compare It To The Holocaust

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March 30, 2021, 10:48 am

U.S. conservatives are very unhappy to learn about the potential emergence of “vaccine passports,” appearing now in nations like Japan, Denmark, and China, which serve as proof that someone has been vaccinated against COVID-19.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, ever ahead of the curve, has declared such a thing “Biden’s Mark of the Beast,” referring to a symbol prophesized in the Bible’s wackiest chapter that labels people a follower of the Antichrist.

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“This would mandate your ability to be able travel, your ability to be able to go to events, your ability to be able to buy and sell, and I asked the question earlier today, ‘is this something like Biden’s mark of the Beast,’ because that is really disturbing and not good,” she said.

Marjorie Taylor Greene says that a vaccine passport is “Biden’s Mark of the Beast” and that any company the requires one is engaging in “corporate communism.” pic.twitter.com/XtTvqw83tU

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) March 30, 2021

The reality is that vaccine passports have already existed for a long time for international travelers. Many nations require people to have received certain vaccines against specific illnesses to travel there.

All Biden has done about this so far is to issue an executive order for related agencies to look into whether it’s feasible for the U.S. to add the COVID vaccine to this existing system.

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Most of the details, however, are being left up to the private sector, which is normally something that Republicans love. Greene, however, seems to be turning against her corporate overlords on this one, accusing them of either fascism or communism, she’s not sure.

“This is what the Biden administration is trying to talk to these private companies into doing,” she babbles. “Well let’s analyze that. You see, it’s still the same thing. It’s still fascism, or communism, whatever you want to call it, but it’s coming from private companies. So I have a term for that — I call it corporate communism.”

Some do have legitimate concerns about private companies creating another class split, as the poor are more likely to come up against difficulties in obtaining the vaccine, and there are some people with certain medical conditions who will not be able to get it at all. However, Republicans are going to need to reconcile with their “free market” philosophy if they’re going to start taking on corporations who decide to utilize vaccine passes for things like public events and access to travel.

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Meanwhile, the Libertarian Party of Kentucky is under fire for comparing COVID vaccine passports to the yellow stars that Jewish people were forced to wear under Nazi Germany. Their tweet is still up even after it earned a cussing out from Seth Rogen.

In spit of this brief but brutal tongue-lashing, the comparison between something that basically already existed for many decades and might temporarily extend to things beyond international travel to the murder of millions of Jewish people is continuing among conservatives. Today’s Jewish people are kindly asking if they could please, for once, stop.

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Request: I’d really appreciate it if people could please stop comparing Covid restrictions and requirements to the Holocaust.

Thank you.

— Rabbi Josh Yuter (@JYuter) March 30, 2021

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i’m just so sick of people using the Holocaust and Jewish people as the butt of their jokes. getting the vaccine is a PRIVILEGE, not oppression. stop comparing normal things to literal genocide, it’s not proving your point

— rain ❁ (@starshiptomarss) March 30, 2021

Showing that you are vaccinated and not transmitting a deadly virus is not the same thing as what my family had to endure in the Holocaust.

Sit down. https://t.co/Ljyj82cD3Q

— Red (@Redpainter1) March 30, 2021

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White Anglo privilege is feeling like you can compare anything you don’t like to the Holocaust and thinking that you’re accurate, when in reality you’re just being antisemitic-lite by equating your tantrum to the death of 6 million Jews.

Here’s looking at you, Libertarians….

— Jake Lobin (@JakeLobin) March 30, 2021

Yes. It’s a slippery slope between distorting the Holocaust and full-on denying it. Not a good look for someone on the board of the US Holocaust Museum. https://t.co/UBud9DfE3i

— Lahav Harkov (@LahavHarkov) March 30, 2021

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Dear Libertarians of Kentucky

You think vaccine passports would be like Jewish stars from the Holocaust??

You might change your mind after you talk to my 95-year-old grandmother who survived Nazi Concentration Camps, where every member of her family was gassed or shot dead.

— Jake Lobin (@JakeLobin) March 30, 2021

I wish anyone comparing vaccine requirements to the Holocaust a particularly awful day

— eli at HOT36 (@agletfan) March 30, 2021

Stop comparing COVID safety policies to the Holocaust.

Wearing a mask or getting a vaccine is about public health. The Holocaust was a genocide.

We are sick of politicians & people in power using this antisemitic rhetoric to spread fear & disinformation.

Signed, Some Jews

— Bend the Arc: Jewish Action (@jewishaction) March 30, 2021

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*First Published: March 30, 2021, 10:48 am