In Episode 92 [10] of the CounterVortex podcast [11], Bill Weinberg takes note of the increasingly extremist anti-vax "protesters," who don the yellow star [12] and explicitly compare themselves to Holocaust victims [13] as they escalate to physical attacks [14] on COVID testing stations in New York City. In Europe, some have dressed up in Nazi uniforms [15] to mock vaccine mandates. They bait others as brainwashed "sheeple" as they themselves echo propaganda from Fox News [16], and defiantly threaten public health [17]—especially that of the elderly, ailing and immune-compromised who are most at risk from the virus. Meanwhile, African leaders protest "vaccine apartheid [18]," and countless hundreds of thousands across across the Global South struggle to get vaccinated [19]. The politics of the anti-vaxxers is actually redolent of Hitler's "euthanasia" program [20], in which "useless eaters" (the disabled) were exterminated—the first step toward the Final Solution. Their juvenile Nazi-baiting is another example of the propaganda device of fascist pseudo-anti-fascism [21].
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