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> TL;DR: Little known but Nazis dressed their prosecution of wrong-groups in health concerns. Both linguistically and visually: "social parasites", "vermin", "plague", "taking resources away, from normal-law-abiding-science-respecting Germans", etc.

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.)

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Do you contest the timeline I posted? Or the sources about Nazi propaganda methods?

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)

You seem to be really convinced by your analogy. I did not see the part in the Nazi timeline where the Jews were offered a free vaccine shot like every other German that would restore all of their rights.

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.

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