That said, she still thinks she’s in the right. “I sincerely apologize for any insensitivity.” “In no way did I intend to trivialize the Star of David or disrespect what happened to millions of people,” she wrote on Instagram. The “disgust” includes the Tennessee Holocaust Commission, which weighed in stating, “Using the yellow star or any Holocaust imagery or symbols for another purpose is beyond reprehensible and a disservice to the memory of the 6 million Jews who were systematically murdered in the Holocaust.”Īnd then companies like Stetson and Bailey Hats announced that they wouldn’t be doing business with hatWRKS anymore. Not sure if by “the fallen” she means those murdered during the Holocaust or those who’ve died from COVID-19 or those who have had to wear masks. i will delete your disgust and hope you put it where it belongs.” i pay much more respect to history by standing up with the fallen than offering silence and compliance. “People are so outraged by my post? but are you outraged with the tyranny the world is experiencing? (sic) if you don’t understand what is happening, that is on you, not me. Gaskins got a lot of angry responses to her post, to which she responded: And if they want to keep it that way, they need to ABOLISH THE FILIBUSTER. Democrats, while not perfect, are not what fascism looks like. We tilted so far toward fascism during Trump’s disaster of a presidency and still have the entire Republican party trying to throw Democracy in the trash. There are also a lot of racist posts about Black Lives Matter, an anti-trans post where she refers to Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine as “this dude,” and lots of warnings about how America is on the fast track to fascism now that Trump isn’t president. So that idea has been in her head for a while. Gaskins has quite a few posts that compare public health guidelines to Nazism. You know, like what you might see on the Instagram account of a hat store. Prior to that, the posts were mostly, well, photos of hats and people wearing hats. It seems that the 2020 election is what really sent Gaskins over the edge (yes, she believes it was stolen). If you look through the hatWRKS Instagram you will see an explosion of right-wing fever dreaming and Trump-worshipping. string adhesive back … we’ll be offering trucker caps soon.” Gigi Gaskins, owner of hatWRKS in Nashville posted a photo of herself on Instagram with a yellow star that read: “patches are here!! they turned out great. Even the most brainwashed Q-Anon Trump cult member wouldn’t equate vaccines - something people are doing during a deadly pandemic so as to stop the spread of a virus - to wearing a yellow star in Nazi Germany - something that was forced on Jewish people who were taken from their homes, put into concentration camps and murdered by the millions.Īnd they certainly wouldn’t, like, make yellow stars that say “Not Vaccinated,” and offer them for sale in their hat store in Tennessee and post this publicly on Instagram. If you can’t spew virus particles in your local supermarket to your heart’s content, then is American even FREE anymore? NO! And now these patriots are screaming that America asking people to get vaccines is the same thing as Nazi Germany demanding that Jews wear yellow stars. Once the vaccinations rolled in, people who didn’t want to get one for “reasons” lost their minds completely. So the audacity of public health professionals saying, “Hey, lots of people are dying, so wear a mask” and government officials mandating masks in the middle of a pandemic was just too much. THEIR president told them that COVID-19 would disappear like a miracle. The biggest deadly temper tantrum in modern history. These are the same people who literally stormed the Capitol because their candidate lost the election. schools because it hurts their feelings and that transgender people not be allowed into public restrooms because it makes them uncomfortable. Now, these same people are demanding that we stop teaching about racism in U.S. I remember it like it was yesterday: Trump supporters flying flags that said, “Fuck your feelings,” wearing T-shirts that said “Suck it up, Buttercup” and making fun of safe spaces.
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