Greene said she has been “bothered for a couple of weeks” by the “mistake” she made in comparing mask mandates to the Holocaust
Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene basically said she missed that day in school. Photo: Nathan Posner/Shutterstock By her own account in a press availability today, Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has been “bothered for a couple of weeks” by the “mistake” she made in comparing mask mandates and COVID-19 vaccine mandates to the Holocaust. This happened after she toured the U.S.
Now to be clear, Greene’s apology was abject and unconditional, and that is a good thing. But she is not some random “normal person.” She is a United States Representative. It is more than a bit astonishing that it took a trip to a museum for her to grasp the nature and unique horror of an event that literate people understand as the most catastrophic occurrence of the century in which she was born.
After her presser today, New York contributor Ben Jacobs asked Greene about that bizarre and offensive comparison, and she responded with a pure word salad: Now perhaps Greene is contrite about some aspects of her recent remarks, but she’s not much better educated – willing to admit a gaffe, but not her general ignorance. If she thinks the Holocaust killed a lot of Black people she didn’t spend enough time at the museum to justify a public statement, which was both too shallow and far too late.
Greene actually has a lot to apologize for in her brief and unaccomplished political career. So far, unless I’ve missed something, she’s apologized for promoting QAnon madness, for doubting the reality of school shootings, and now misappropriating the memory of the Holocaust. She’ll probably say five more things that are offensive and howlingly uninformed before she retracts the last one. I profoundly hope her most questionable comment in the apology presser was: “I’m very much a normal person.
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