Alaska State Representative: COVID-19 safety measures compare to Nazi labeling of Jews in Holocaust

[NewYorkExpress]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/17/politics/alaska-lawmaker-ben-carpenter-star-of-david-holocaust-coronavirus/index.html

An Alaska state lawmaker apologized Sunday for comments he recently made likening new health safety measures being used in the statehouse to how Jews were labeled with a Star of David by Nazis during the Holocaust.

In an email sent Friday to every member of the Alaska House of Representatives, Republican state Rep. Ben Carpenter took issue with the new measures, which require lawmakers to "undergo a health screening. Those who pass the screening will be asked to wear a sticker," according to the Anchorage Daily News.

"How about an arm band that won't fall off like a sticker will?" read the email, according to the Daily News. "If my sticker falls off, do I get a new one or do I get public shaming too? Are the stickers available as a yellow Star of David?"

Carpenter also recently claimed that Adolf Hitler was not a White Supremacist, and that his fear of a Jewish Nation led to the Holocaust, and suggested that Coronavirus patients could be "rounded up and taken somewhere" like Jews were during the Holocaust.

Both Republicans and Democrats in the state Legislature have slammed the comments.

Alaska currently has 380 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 10 reported deaths.

[T'Chenka]

Why is public safety "the enemy" now?

[Middle-aged Europe]

It's a "Hitler was a vegetarian, therefore we must eat more meat" kind of logic.

[Landslide Lyndon]

RINO!

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

It's been quite the few days for these creepy conspiracy nuts.

[GP270watch]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/17/politics/alaska-lawmaker-ben-carpenter-star-of-david-holocaust-coronavirus/index.html

An Alaska state lawmaker apologized Sunday for comments he recently made likening new health safety measures being used in the statehouse to how Jews were labeled with a Star of David by Nazis during the Holocaust.

In an email sent Friday to every member of the Alaska House of Representatives, Republican state Rep. Ben Carpenter took issue with the new measures, which require lawmakers to "undergo a health screening. Those who pass the screening will be asked to wear a sticker," according to the Anchorage Daily News.

"How about an arm band that won't fall off like a sticker will?" read the email, according to the Daily News. "If my sticker falls off, do I get a new one or do I get public shaming too? Are the stickers available as a yellow Star of David?"

Carpenter also recently claimed that Adolf Hitler was not a White Supremacist, and that his fear of a Jewish Nation led to the Holocaust, and suggested that Coronavirus patients could be "rounded up and taken somewhere" like Jews were during the Holocaust.

 Where do these people get this crap from? How does something so ridiculous and misinformed come out of person's mouth?

[Sir Mohamed]

Nazi comparisons are always the worst comparisons. Not just because of historic inaccuracy and ignorance, but also because it's tasteless and a punch in the gut of all those with ancestors that were murdered by the Nazi regime or the horrible pain it caused by starting a world war.

[ProudModerate2]

I dont understand how these nutjobs get into office.
But then again, we have thee biggest nutjob currently in the White House.

[Brittain33]

Saul Friedlander noted that the purpose of the Nazi Star of David was to identify its wearer for death. There were interim steps and tactics involved, but that was the fundamental essence of the star badge. It’s not a coincidence that outside of Poland, it was introduced very late in the process and shortly before mass deportations to killing centers. (September 1941 in the Reich, spring 1942 in Western Europe.)

[Fight for Trump]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/17/politics/alaska-lawmaker-ben-carpenter-star-of-david-holocaust-coronavirus/index.html

An Alaska state lawmaker apologized Sunday for comments he recently made likening new health safety measures being used in the statehouse to how Jews were labeled with a Star of David by Nazis during the Holocaust.

In an email sent Friday to every member of the Alaska House of Representatives, Republican state Rep. Ben Carpenter took issue with the new measures, which require lawmakers to "undergo a health screening. Those who pass the screening will be asked to wear a sticker," according to the Anchorage Daily News.

"How about an arm band that won't fall off like a sticker will?" read the email, according to the Daily News. "If my sticker falls off, do I get a new one or do I get public shaming too? Are the stickers available as a yellow Star of David?"

Carpenter also recently claimed that Adolf Hitler was not a White Supremacist, and that his fear of a Jewish Nation led to the Holocaust, and suggested that Coronavirus patients could be "rounded up and taken somewhere" like Jews were during the Holocaust.

 Where do these people get this crap from? How does something so ridiculous and misinformed come out of person's mouth?

Technically, Hitler's racial views were more complicated than white supremacy, but obviously it's a rather meaningless distinction.