During an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union over the weekend, Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.) — who was one of the ten House Republicans who voted in favor of impeaching then-President Donald Trump on a charge of incitement of insurrection in January — starkly criticized Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for recently comparing wearing face masks to the Holocaust. During a right-wing media appearance, Greene said that a push for members of Congress to wear masks unless vaccinated is “exactly the type of abuse” that unfolded during the Holocaust, which is just staggeringly delusional.
MTG says Speaker Pelosi wanting Members of Congress to get vaccinated and if not to wear masks is “exactly the type of abuse” as murdering Jews in gas chambers during the Holocaust and David Brody nods along. No follow up. pic.twitter.com/inXfD8UBiG
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) May 22, 2021
No, Marjorie: Being asked to wear a mask isn’t the same as being tortured and murdered in Nazi Germany. The victim complex of these privileged egomaniacs like Greene is just wild. On CNN, Meijer insisted that Greene’s conspiratorial remarks feed into anti-Semitism, which itself is often based in unhinged conspiracy theories like the nonsense that Greene consistently propagates. As Meijer put it:
‘Any comparisons to the Holocaust — it’s beyond reprehensible. I don’t even have words to describe how disappointing it is to see this hyperbolic speech that frankly amps up and plays into a lot of the anti-Semitism that we’ve been seeing in our society today — vicious attacks on the streets of New York and in Los Angeles, and I do condemn that in the strongest terms. There is no excuse for that. But the broader message… the broadest challenge right now is that that’s where the oxygen is. It’s in the most outlandish, the most far-fetched, the most attention-seeking message.’
Meijer added as follows:
‘We should be talking about policies. We should be talking about the growing climate solutions. We should be talking about all of the things that will have a tangible impact on this country, on where our cybersecurity capabilities are today, on how we are going to remain competitive and outlast and be the world victors in our global competition against China. That’s not where our conversation is. It gets distracted by personalities. It gets distracted by everything that is ultimately of very little substance but has an influence on the body politic.’
Check out Meijer’s comments below:
GOP Rep. Peter Meijer says Marjorie Taylor Greene's comments comparing House mask mandates to the holocaust are "beyond reprehensible."
"I don't even have words to describe how disappointing it is to see this hyperbolic speech…" #CNNSOTU https://t.co/ju8nL9oEse pic.twitter.com/Pm8aMM4Ska
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