We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29758807.
But I disagree strongly with your "way over the top" Daniel – that's just rude.
Mine was an on-topic factual response, substantiated with relevant links, articulated in a perfectly civil manner. Along with my sibling responses.
I bet you many people were not aware of these facts, or the broader historical context. All perfectly appropriate given the thread topic. I'm kinda sad this information (it really took effort to compile) is now invisible :(
Not only that but your comment contained other flamebait besides the Holocaust invocation. "Don't worry, there's plenty of time yet" and "So excuse me for not being impressed by your" were obvious provocations. That's not "a perfectly civil manner".
"Factual" is a red herring - there are infinitely many facts. They don't select themselves; humans do that. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Nope, it wasn't. See my sibling response to random314.
Just because others cried wolf before, doesn't mean you shouldn't cry wolf when you see one. Indeed you must, given the parent post (detached now, context lost). I didn't draw that analogy out of nowhere – it's apt, and driven by both hard data and curiosity.
Choosing to ignore your "this should not be hard to understand" and "everyone knows" snarks.
Yeah:
> The vaccine passport is exactly like the Nazi yellow star - if the Nazi yellow star meant that the recipients had received life-saving medicine at no cost to themselves and with maybe some free lottery tickets as a side bonus.
* https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1437045106121625613
(David Frum, former speech writer for Bush43, is Jewish.)
Please do so directly and concretely. If you post in good faith, I'll be happy to engage.
Your glib one-liner adds nothing, throw0101a. It's just a non-sequitur, to score shallow points by a "former speech writer of Bush43".
For others reading along, feeling "But surely this is different!" in their gut like maybe you are, an honest question:
At what point would you go "I'm not OK with actively doing this to a group of fellow humans, no matter how much of a vermin / plague / waste of resources for the society I feel they are"?
If the end of my timeline (Dec 21, 1938) doesn't do it for you – which of the ensuing WW2 years would? What's the line in the sand you would not cross? I realize vaccine passports may not be it for you, that's fine with many – but which of the next (inevitable) steps will be too much?
(Please answer internally, no need to respond to me)
I checked wikipedia and did not find it there either. It would be a real shame, if all the Jews had to do escape the holocaust was to accept a free vaccine shot like everyone else. Looking forward to references that expose this detail - because I couldn't find any.