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2020-05-03 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Protester carries CV 'Arbeit macht frei' sign likely directed toward billionaire Governor

[PJ] The Auschwitz Museum and Memorial condemned a protester who brought a sign featuring the Nazi slogan "Arbeit macht frei" to a rally against Illinois’s stay-at-home orders.

The museum's official Twitter account responded to a photograph from the "Re-open Illinois" protest, which showed a woman wearing an American flag face mask while carrying a sign reading "Arbeit macht frei, JB."

The initials appear to be directed to Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D), who is Jewish.

"'Arbeit macht frei' was a false, cynical illusion the SS gave to prisoners of #Auschwitz. Those words became one of the icons of human hatred. It's painful to see this symbol instrumentalized & used again to spread hate. It's a symptom of moral & intellectual degeneration," the tweet reads.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-03 03:30|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 Stadt luft (or any luft) macht frei

Posted by Lex 2020-05-03 03:40|| 2020-05-03 03:40|| Front Page Top

#2 In the future, everyone will be Hitler for 15 minutes?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-03 03:54|| 2020-05-03 03:54|| Front Page Top

#3 ...besides, we're all Japanese internees now, not German. It's more of an American Democratic Party tradition.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-03 07:48|| 2020-05-03 07:48|| Front Page Top

#4 I thought this was already exposed as a hoax of one sort or another.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-05-03 09:45|| 2020-05-03 09:45|| Front Page Top

#5 That hypocritical fat phuk Pritzker has more important things to worry about like ensuring his wife makes her plane on time.

Posted by Clem 2020-05-03 10:00|| 2020-05-03 10:00|| Front Page Top

#6 In the future, everyone will be Hitler for 15 minutes?

Oh, goodie! I can hardly wait my turn. I've got a list made out and everything.

As for the protest, I see the slogan as a symbol of how far anyone with totalitarian intent will go to *bleep* over those they regard as The Other, if you give them half a chance.

Seen over on Ace of Spades

Posted by SteveS 2020-05-03 19:08|| 2020-05-03 19:08|| Front Page Top

#7 ^LOL

Posted by Matt 2020-05-03 19:17|| 2020-05-03 19:17|| Front Page Top

#8 :-)

Posted by Frank G 2020-05-03 20:19|| 2020-05-03 20:19|| Front Page Top

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