It is eternally fascinating… that Hinderaker, and Mirengoff & Co. regularly decry what they view as antisemitic remarks from Democratic leaders, here in the US — but never ever broach the subject of Holocaust denier / minimizer forces. Why? Well, because that lunacy is primarily the bread and butter of the Trumpian base of the GOP. True ‘dat.
If we hadn’t lived through four long years of the insanely anti-scientific Tangerine (asleep, as Mr. Van Winkle), sensibly-educated people in 2021 might find this story (not at all representative of the vast majority of the good and well-educated people of Nashville)… hard to believe.
But this is what blind hatred of… pandemic abatement bio-science spawns. Hinderaker has repeatedly fanned the non-scientific flames of this passion, in his ignoramus-laden masses, at Powerline.
It is not just that it is wrong, on the science — it is that it equates being anti-science not just to being (properly, in my view) marginalized, but to… being exterminated. If you haven’t seen the story, I’ll link a summary version from The Tennessean — and quote a bit (but I will not reprint the shop-owner’s initial defense of her lunacy, as it is. . . unfathomably disgusting):
…A Nashville hat seller removed an Instagram post after fueling social media controversy selling a patch that looks like the Jewish Star of David and a Holocaust symbol.
HatWRKS, run by hatmaker Gigi Gaskins, posted a photo of a woman wearing a bright yellow star sticker with the words: “Not Vaccinated.”
Social media users responded with the hashtag #HateWorks, calling the sticker anti-Semitic and “disgusting.” The original Instagram post had thousands of comments before being taken down….
Going out of business. . . in three. . . two. . . and. . . G O N E.
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