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"During the anti-lockdown protests at parliament last year, I was told about a
15-year-old who stopped to ask someone why they were crying. The person replied
they were Jewish and had been upset by Nazi imagery used by some protesters,
including swastikas chalked on the ground.
Water bottle in hand, they set about washing these off, until a well-dressed,
middle-aged woman threatened to kill them and parliamentary security ushered
them away.
The local Jewish community sounded a warning about the “grotesque and deeply
hurtful” appropriation of the Holocaust by protesters that, as the situation in
Wellington suggests, went unheeded.
The current occupation of parliament grounds has also seen disturbing
references to Nazism and the Holocaust. These have been variously deployed to
call for the execution of journalists and politicians, invoke the Nuremberg
Code and compare vaccine mandates to the Nazi persecution of the Jews.
Not only do such comparisons rest on false equivalences, absurd leaps of logic
and historical anachronism, they are also tactics that tap into long histories
of exploitation of the Holocaust for political ends."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
