When a Republican chooses not to wear a mask in an indoor public setting, he’s endangering those around him and putting their lives at risk. But when a Democrat does the same, it’s OK — as long as the mishap occurred during Black History Month.
That is more or less the defense Georgia gubernatorial candidate
Stacey Abrams
offered after a picture in which she was seen without a mask, surrounded by dozens of young children who were wearing masks, went viral.
“It is shameful that our opponents are using a Black History Month reading event for Georgia children as the impetus for a false political attack, and it is pitiful and predictable that our opponents continue to look for opportunities to distract from their failed records when it comes to protecting public health during the pandemic,” Abrams’s team said in a statement this week.
The criticism Abrams has faced is fair and well-founded: What is the point of forcing young children to wear masks for hours on end, day after day, if the Democratic politicians who pushed these masking policies openly defy them? Clearly, masks in schools aren’t all that necessary if Abrams felt safe enough to remove hers during an event.
And she’s not the only one. Michigan Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin and New York Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman were also spotted last week not wearing masks in schools where the children around them were required to wear masks.
But not one of them has acknowledged, let alone apologized for, the blatant hypocrisy of their actions. And why would they when they can just claim “The Science” changed and use that as an excuse? Or, if you’re Abrams, you can cite Black History Month as some sort of random justification and act like the whole thing never happened.
