Anchorage anti-maskers abused history in protests against a proposed ordinance requiring masking at indoor events to curb the spread of COVID. Somehow in the minds of the protestors this ordinance became comparable to the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews, with the part of the Jews played by the anti-maskers, who signified their role by wearing yellow Stars of David, as Jews were forced to in Nazi-occupied Europe. The anti-maskers did this to protest an ordinance that will save lives, not mark them for extinction. Our mayor initially backed this tortured symbolic logic saying it was a credit to the Jews. Later he backed off, with a classic faux apology, saying “If I offended anyone, I am truly sorry.” Apparently he is not sorry for backing a grotesque misinterpretation of history.
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