A recent uptick in Holocaust-related memes around the COVID vaccine is fueling further anti-Semitic thought and behavior. Derek investigates a crop of wellness influencers guilty of this charge.
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Objects in mirror are closer than they appear.
This ubiquitous safety warning applies equally to history.
The more a tragedy or genocide recedes into the past, the more we're likely to immortalize it rather than learn from its ugly appearance.
Television champions Genghis Khan and Vikings as alpha males exploiting faraway riches rather than as brutal murderers bent on conquest.
Their stain has faded from memory.
Bonus points when said tragedy didn't happen to your family.
American politicians call slavery our original sin, as if another didn't predate it, while also claiming that every citizen is privileged with equal opportunities today, which of course is a lie.
Just as wealth is generational, so is lack.
Those same politicians can't even own up to the insurrection, indicative of their media's distortion of our sense of time and place.
And so they both create and exploit their media to further hypnotize their constituents.
If we can't get 2021 right, good luck rewinding the clock back eight decades.
This distortion of time affords an erasure of empathy, a phenomenon that allows a broad contingent of yogis and wellness practitioners to feel justified and even emboldened by tying holocaust memes to the COVID vaccines they claim are leading us straight into an authoritarian slaughter.
Holistic practitioners are not the only contingent guilty of this heinous act.
Though in a media environment predominantly focused on MAGA acolytes, they are often underrepresented in terms of influence.
They're also a group unlikely to own up to errors in judgment.
Data reveal a string of failed prophecies trailing QAnon's infection of the American electorate.
The COVID vaccine will also be abandoned.
Forgotten, really.
History shows all anti-vax efforts fade over time.
Though a more powerful drug, in the form of an intentional narcotic, must replace it.
Right now, we're stuck in a whirlpool of the relentless memification of every past autocratic regime preparing the paperwork for vaccine passports, one that seems to spin faster by the day.
The damage being done by the increasing crop of anti-Semitic memes is indicative of a selfish culture unconcerned with anything but their own feelings.
The Holocaust, it should be noted, is the term given specifically to the genocide of predominantly Jews during World War II, alongside other European minority groups, such as the Roma, fancifully known as Gypsies, Soviet prisoners of war, gay men, the disabled, dissidents, and ethnic Poles.
But still, we know it as a Jewish slaughter.
The word genocide can be applied more broadly.
The Holocaust demands specificity.
Lately, Holocaust is being used as a verb or common noun instead of a proper noun.
And this bastardization lets some ignore its historical gravity.
