New Michigan GOP Chair Kristina Karamo, the failed 2022 Republican candidate for Michigan secretary of state, tweeted her own statement Wednesday morning in response to calls to delete the Holocaust tweet.

Learn more about the Holocaust from the U.S. Many worry that belittling the devastation of the Holocaust, and what led to it, will only lead to more antisemitic acts.

The comparisons are especially concerning to Jewish people amid a recorded rise in antisemitism across the U.S. To the dismay of many, especially those of Jewish heritage, the brutal genocide is often inappropriately compared to political issues and situations that do not share the same degree of severity. The Holocaust - which was the “systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million European Jews by the Nazi German regime and its allies and collaborators” - is frequently used as a comparison when mentioning an infringement of rights.īetween 1933-1945, during World War II, Nazi Germany and its allies killed about two-thirds of Europe’s entire Jewish population using methods like mass shootings and gassings, and specially designed killing centers. The Michigan Republican Party takes to Twitter on March 22, 2023, to apparently compare gun reform to the Holocaust.

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