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In Illinois, it Must be Fun to Nazi-Troll a Jewish Governor
A pattern is emerging wherein protesters are taking on Illinois Governor JB Pritzker’s stay-home policy for the covid-19 pandemic with comparisons of the Jewish governor to Nazi Germany.
“You saw some of the signs. You saw the vehemence that people are carrying those signs with swastikas and pictures of Adolph Hitler, references to me and my family,” Pritzker said. “Yeah, I’m concerned.”
A protester in the state capital in Springfield was spotted on May 1 by reporter Mike Miletich of local NBC News affiliate WGEM, holding a sign that read “Heil Pritzker” beside a swastika.
Meanwhile, up in Chicago where a simultaneous rally was held at the State’s Jim Thompson Center, a counterprotesting registered nurse captured the image of a protester carrying a sign with the infamous inscription above the gate to the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp, “Arbeit Macht Frei, JB.”
Under the governor’s executive order, business owners commit a misdemeanor violation by putting people at risk by reopening. “Under that existing law,” the governor said, “law enforcement can issue a citation to the business.”
Who can ever forget learning about the six million European Jews issued misdemeanor citations during World War II in their Holocaust Studies class. Never Again…