On Monday, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene apologized for comparing former mask mandates to the Holocaust.
“The Holocaust is — there’s nothing comparable to it,” said the Georgia Republican following a visit to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Monday. “There is no comparison to the Holocaust. And there are words that I have said, remarks that I’ve made, that I know are offensive, and for that, I want to apologize,” added Greene.
However, in response to a question from reporter Ben Jacobs over whether she stands by her recent comparison of Democrats to the Nazis, Greene quickly abandoned her previous contrition:
While the embrace of socialism by many Democrats is alarming and must be challenged, the Democratic platform does not call for sending those who do not agree with its ideology to concentration or death camps. While censorship by social media companies is disturbing, it is not a government initiative, rather a move by the leftist agenda of powerful private sector figures. Also, while critical race theory is racist and must be restrained, it has not been mandated by the government. Nazi Germany, in contrast, totally controlled what was taught in classrooms and other institutions.
To be clear, none of the concerns that Greene mentions compare to what the Nazi death squads and camps did to 6 million Jews and 5 million others. And that’s not even including the other casualties during the Second World War.
By also refusing to apologize for comparing Democrats to Nazis, Greene demonstrates that she did not genuinely care to learn from her visit to the museum. As a grandson of Holocaust survivors, she insults me.
Hyperbolic and ignorant comparisons, whether they are Holocaust ones from Greene or lumping the United States and Israel in the same category as Hamas and the Taliban, as Rep. Ilhan Omar did, must be unequivocally condemned. Just as Omar has refused to apologize sincerely and learn from her comparison and for her record of antisemitic rhetoric, Greene has refused to do the same over her record of antisemitism and Holocaust comparisons.
As I’ve written, she truly is the Omar of the GOP. Like Omar, she continues to offend the Jewish community shamelessly.
Jackson Richman is a journalist in Washington, D.C. Follow him @jacksonrichman.
