Multiple Minnesota Republicans Compare Masks to Nazism

DFL Party Calls on MNGOP to Condemn and Stop Fueling Offensive Rhetoric  

SAINT PAUL, Minnesota – Over the weekend, a couple wore Nazi flag face masks at a Minnesota Walmart to protest the state’s new mask mandate. The couple was not alone in making that comparison, however. Today, the Minnesota DFL Party is condemning multiple offensive, inflammatory, and absurd comparisons drawn by several Minnesota Republicans between Minnesota’s mask mandate and Nazi persecution of Jewish people.

The Republican Party of Wabasha County posted the following image to their Facebook page yesterday, which draws parallels between COVID-19 masks and the yellow stars Jewish people were forced to wear by Nazis during the Holocaust:

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