Hey, when you’re busy championing economic fairness, who can resist comparing the world’s largest retailer at more than 2 million employees to the 20th century’s foremost genocidal maniac?
Comedian Dick Gregory likened Walmart to the leader of Nazi Germany during a Tuesday rally in front of Washington, D.C.’s city council building protesting Mayor Vincent Gray’s veto last week of a ‘living wage’ bill. The rejected measure would have required large retailers like Walmart to pay its employees at least $12.50 per hour, $4.25 above the city’s current minimum wage.
“When you look at Hitler and those thugs, you can put Walmart right next to them,” Gregory said, as reported by Sean Higgins of Red Alert Politics’ sister publication, the Washington Examiner.
A longtime social activist and member of Comedy Central’s “100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time”, Gregory has staked out sensationalist ground before. Among his controversial topics of conversation: government conspiracy theories and organ harvesting.
Walmart had announced that it would cancel plans to build six new stores in Washington if the living wage bill was enacted. Gray’s veto cited lost job creation and business as major concerns.
The city council upheld Gray’s veto in a 7-6 vote Tuesday.
(h / t, Washington Examiner)
