The owner of a mask that promotes the Holocaust should warn of the dangers of following “innocent orders and rules.” Array Jews “banalizes” the Holocaust.
The masks are subtle: one is adorned with the outstanding photo of a Jewish mother and a child, with his hands raised, at the risk of a Nazi weapon. Aher displays an incomparable symbol of a concentration camp crematorium.
The product description under the mom and son mask reads: “Another ambitious symbol that conveys an overly offensive message.” Sold for $12.44.
These masks, and similar ones, are sold online in HolocaustFaceMasks.com. Other products in the images include images of Nazi concentrations or a Japanese internment camp in the United States. A T-shirt sold on the screens 3 photographs in numerical order: first, a generic mask; second, an image of Jews queuing up to enter a ghetto; third, an image of a Nazi concentration camp.
You probably understand. But if he doesn’t, The founder explained his purpose on the homepage.
“Our purpose here is to remind you what can happen when millions of people adhere to ‘orders’ and ‘seemingly innocent rules’,” the newspaper says. “In the age of the olocauste [H], other people might not have had such such a recent example of evil to keep them alert and tired [sic] of the discomfort that awaited them. We do.”
The founder of the site responded temporarily to a request from the Jewish Telegraph Agency. Identifying himself as Tyler Kozdron, he said he had the idea that requiring a face mask could lead to something like the “or even more sinister” Holocaust. And you don’t feel bad for saying it.
“I chose photographs of the Holocaust because I couldn’t think of a larger organization of photographs that would express the feeling of taking everything, and I guess some other people don’t perceive it because they haven’t felt that feeling in their lives yet.” He wrote Kozdron. ‘Or maybe you just can’t equate the fact of dressing up in a mask with that feeling, but I can.’
In the following emails, Kozdron hesitated to say a lot about himself because of what he called “the endless death threats I receive.” But he said he is 28, a descendant of Polish immigrants who arrived in the United States at the time of World War II and a former fuel station worker somewhere in the United States.
His delight in running at the gas station the pandemic, he said, convinced him that the measures in the United States. to save him COVID-19 are fundamentally useless, because many regulations in his office didn’t make sense to him and did not seem effective to him.
So, he wrote, “Started thinking, ” what if it were a component of something much bigger? I’ve read a lot about the Holocaust, I sense how you can manipulate other people. And for me personally, anything is here.
On Tuesday night, Kozdron said he had sold less than 10 masks. Public fitness officials such as the CDC were emphatically dressed in masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The watchdogs of anti-Semitism are close enough to say that comparing the Holocaust with occasions that are not genocide is an unacceptable trivialization of tragedy, and have had the opportunity to insist on this point in the midst of a wave of comparisons between the face mask and the Nazis in recent times. Months.
On July 5, Jonathan Greenblatt, executive director of the Anti-Defamation League, tweeted: “Comparing COVID-19 regulations with the bloodbath of millions of people in the Holocaust is disgusting, false and has no position in our society.”
It’s the first time he’s done something like that, ” said Kozdron. And given the jubilation he’s had, he probably wouldn’t do it again. But he doesn’t apologize. He doesn’t think he’s trivializing the Holocaust. He thinks, in fact, that he “does not trivialize him by bringing him back to full attention in this express context.”
In fact, he says, it’s the Jews who trivialize the Holocaust.
“It turns out to me that there are many Jews out there who need to keep the Holocaust as a kind of distinctive feature pedestal on which they can lift a knee when they need an opportunity in their own lives to communicate with another person without the prepriest for retaliation or interrogation,” he wrote, echoing an anti-Semitic stereotype that Jews invoke the Holocaust themselves from criticism.
“If you asked me, I would say that Jews who take the opportunity to embolden everything they may have to say is what “really trivializes the Holocaust.”
He added: “If someone who was in one of the camps told me that they are angry and that what I’m doing is very wrong, I would apologize and everything.”
In the meantime, he is disappointed with the Jews, who, he writes, “of all peoples, may be so blind to what is happening in the world today.”
“Once again,” he added, “stereotypical rumors would say jews are leading the replacement of society.”