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May 25, 2021, 11:42 am
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been hard at work this year drumming up as much controversy as possible around herself after having been removed from her committee assignments for her role in inciting the assault on the Capitol in January.
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She has been helped in this effort by her past self, including a resurfaced video in which she said she would not want to take down statues of Adolf Hitler or even “Satan himself” because she doesn’t know of any other way to teach her kids about bad people.
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The video comes from 2020, back when the removal of Confederate monuments was a hot topic among the summer’s civil unrest over systemic racism in the U.S. and other nations, and Republicans everywhere were fretting over how they could possibly remember the past without statues. Many also defended the actions of Confederate generals as well as historical figures like Christopher Columbus, who was famously vicious toward the native populations of the lands he claimed to have “discovered” in spite of the people who were already there, claiming that these men are still important to history.
Greene, in classic form, went further than anyone needed to with this narrative.
“We’re seeing situations where Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln – all kinds of statues are being attacked, and it seems to be just an effort to take down history,” she says to the Dalton, Georgia city council.
“And whether I see a statue that may be something that I would fully disagree with, like Adolph Hitler, maybe a statue of Satan himself, I would not want to say ‘take it down,’ but again, it’s so that I could tell my children and teach others about who these people are, what they did and what they may be about.”
It wasn’t long before “Hitler and Satan” was trending on Twitter, scaring everybody.
The video of Greene publicly making this statement, apparently having forgotten about the existence of things like books, resurfaced not long after the congresswoman was resoundingly criticized for comparing “vaccine passports” and mask mandates to the Holocaust. Her tweet was so bad that even far-right mouthpiece Ben Shapiro called the comparison “insulting and insane.”
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“Vaccinated employees get a vaccination logo just like the Nazi’s forced Jewish people to wear a gold star,” Greene tweeted. “Vaccine passports & mask mandates create discrimination against unvaxxed people who trust their immune systems to a virus that is 99% survivable.”
Greene defended her statement to Shapiro by saying that she didn’t compare a supposed requirement for employees to wear a “vaccination logo” in one particular store to the Holocaust, only to “the discrimination against Jews in early Nazi years.” Sorry, history majors.
Greene has a storied history of comparing unrelated things to the Holocaust no matter how many Jewish people and others beg her to stop, and the pain is only compounded by having to agree with Ben Shapiro on anything.
*First Published: May 25, 2021, 11:42 am
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