Posted on 10/10/2021 8:02:11 AM PDT by jerod
Comparisons with Nazi era becoming a common refrain at protests against vaccine mandates and COVID rules
Belle Jarniewski leaned back from her computer, seething with anger after she finished watching a video on Reddit showing a Winnipeg restaurateur accosting public health enforcement officers.
"I'm still shaking after listening to that rant. That was unbelievable," she said.
The video shows Shea Ritchie, the owner of Chaise Lounge locations on Corydon Avenue and Provencher Boulevard, speaking with officers giving him tickets on Sept. 24 for allowing diners who choose not to be vaccinated to dine inside his restaurant.
"If they're so dangerous, shouldn't we be identifying them with something bright, like a yellow star?" Ritchie says in the video, which he filmed and posted to his personal Facebook page and that has since been circulating on social media.
"Why don't you put them in a camp until they finally comply?"
arniewski, the executive director of the Jewish Heritage Centre and a member of the Canadian delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, said this type of rhetoric has become more rampant during the pandemic.
"We've seen these anti-vaxxer protests that are trying to compare the restrictions for COVID to the Holocaust," she said. "I have to say, he's gone much further than anyone I personally have seen or heard about."
Jarniewski is the daughter of two Holocaust survivors. Her mother survived the Auschwitz concentration camp, Jarniewski said, and her father was taken to six different concentration camps.
"To suggest that these restrictions in any way, shape or form are comparable to the suffering of what happened to the Jews during the Holocaust is unconscionable. It's also a distortion of history," she said.
"The comparison is disgusting."
Antisemitic rhetoric surfaced at pandemic protests Though Jarniewski found Ritchie's comments to be a particularly extreme version, they are representative of what seems to be a shared belief among a fringe of those vehemently opposed to COVID-19 restrictions: that vaccine mandates and passports and other rules to curb the spread of the coronavirus are similar to the ways the Nazis mistreated Jews and other ethnic groups.
Across Canada, some protesters have called public health orders genocide, worn yellow stars like those Jews were forced to wear in Nazi-occupied Europe and even attended protests displaying images of Anne Frank, the Jewish teenager who died in a Nazi concentration camp and whose diaries were posthumously published and read around the world.
CBC News spoke with Ritchie via text message about the video and what happened in his restaurant. When asked about being fined for breaking public health orders, he said it was done in an effort to "honour [those who died in the Holocaust] by taking personal responsibility to ensure never again."
"We have suspended charter rights, and it very well could happen again."...
I went to a restaurant yesterday with a friend... He had his vaccination 'papers', but he forgot his identification and was denied entry to the establishment.
We are now living in a fascist state created by our socialist government... The CBC is a propaganda tool of that state and they produce 'news' that reflects the governments narrative... That people apposed to these restrictions are similar to Nazi's, rather than the reverse.
The real truth... The Canadian government is led by socialist loving Justin Trudeau, and his government has become an autocratic and NAZI like regime with their forced Covid restrictions.
Yet calling Donald Trump “hitler” and us supporters “nazis” was widely advocated by this same media.
In the years between 1933 and 1939, the Nazi regime had brought radical and daunting social, economic, and communal change to the German Jewish community. Six years of Nazi-sponsored legislation had marginalized and disenfranchised Germany's Jewish citizenry and had expelled Jews from the professions and from commercial life. By early 1939, only about 16 percent of Jewish breadwinners had steady employment of any kind.
USA is Germany 1933. And going full Nazi fast
Nice try by the Covidistas
CBC should be ashamed for that grotesquely misleading headline!
The funny thing is i did not see any outrage from these jewish groups when Trump was compared to hitler...yet they are no in an uproar over the vaccine apartheid...
More liberal poop.
It wasn’t just Jews. Folks in opposition to the naughtZee regime also suffered and were sent to ‘relocation/labor’ camps. Mrs rktman’s mom and family were subjected to this. Her Opa was put in the German army as a cook. Somehow after the war they managed to all reunite.
All part of the communist left’s take over of the language and the narrative.
Oh PU A LEEZZZ !
Comparisons with Nazi era becoming a common refrain at protests against vaccine mandates and COVID rules
ARE EXACTLY CUZ ITS
TRUE AND ACCURATE !!!
( NOBLE p.o.s.’s are still p.o.s.’s)
It seems like the answer to being caught lying is more lying. The endless cascade of falsehoods has drowned out calm voices and reason. I have withdrawn from the news and am concentrating on my hobbies and classic literature and philosophy. If you study history and the great thinkers you realize mankind has been making the same mistakes for centuries, and that the truth and solutions have always been there. There’s no reason to believe things are going to end any differently than they have in the past.
Hmm. Al. Of a sudden the Jew hating left are all concerned about antisemitism again? Funny how they turn their ‘sympathy for Jews” on and off at the drop of a hat.
Nazi is just a term used by those in power to slur those who are not in power.
Where is the logic here.
The COVID mandates and regulations are BAD.
The Nazis hated the Jews and used mandates and regulations to eliminate them. THAT IS BAD.
How is comparing present Government mandates with Nazi mandates Anti=Semitic. Isn’t it more Anti=Government and Anti=Nazi.
We HATE both MANDATES...NOT JEWS.
That’s right. The best way to avoid another Holocaust is to never compare anything to the tyrannical tactics that led to it.
(/s)
Media Nazi era becoming a common refrain they always have been look how they pimp the left socialism communism and any other non American way.
Honey, the difference between this stuff and a Holocaust may be a matter of a few years. Wake up.
If the pfascists stop acting like Big Pharma fascists I will stop calling them pfascists.
Their move....
According to them, we are the ones using the Nazi comparison. Of course they use it for everything, but only complain when we use it. 🙂
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