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Pupils' yellow badges for mask exemption spark Nazi comparisons

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Wed, 24 Nov 2021 16:57 UTC

A British boarding school has asked pupils to wear a yellow badge if they are exempt from a face mask mandate introduced in classrooms and corridors following a rise in Covid-19 cases.

In a letter to parents, David Jackson, the headmaster of Farringtons School in Kent, said the institution had decided to reintroduce the compulsory wearing of face masks in classrooms and other confined areas within the senior school.

The measures would be in place "until further notice" amid the increasing number of Covid-19 cases. Jackson added that students exempt from the public school's rules on masks would be asked to "wear a yellow badge to indicate this."

The move has come under fire from a parent group who claimed that the Kent school, which charges £34,050 ($45,500) per year for boarders, has made a "deeply inappropriate" request by asking students to wear yellow badges.

Molly Kingsley, co-founder of parent campaign group UsForThem told The Telegraph that the "historic connotations" associated with yellow badges made the move "deeply uncomfortable."

She also claimed that asking children exempt from masking-wearing, some of whom will be medically vulnerable, will only serve to "stigmatise" them even more. Kingsley claims the practice is not uncommon and yellow stars have been used elsewhere.

A spokesman for Farringtons School responded by saying, "the decision to re-introduce masks was taken following Public Health England advice in response to a spike in cases after the October half-term holiday." They added that their primary motive was to keep the community safe.

Any type of yellow badge is deemed historically insensitive to some who claim it echoes Nazi-era genocide. Jews were forced to wear a yellow star so they could be easily marked out for segregation.

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Good Optics · 2021-11-24T17:22:40Z

It could be any other colour . . . but then this whole psyop is driven by a covert Nazi cult isn't it ?

HashAttack2 · 2021-11-24T18:15:57Z

Good Optics It could but it sounds like a lot of fake noise - maybe this means they can change it to a white star and everybody will applause, like trained seals, and say what a good idea it is

I couldn't give a flying one about "historic connotations" ... what about present day and future connotations

I hear they are now rounding up and transporting Australians to concentration camps ... the last thing on the minds of the victims are "what about the historic connotations"

Maybe this is also a narrative play to restrict allowable comparisons ... The last thing modern Nazis want are people reflecting on how similar their current behaviour is to that of historical Nazis

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-11-24T18:19:00Z

Good Optics Yep. It is strange feeling so aloft from most of humanity stuck in the most inverted reality with reason abandoned, scary.

Reminds me of Twain's Mysterious Stranger's quote about how then the nation will take up the pulpit and shout down etc. I've decided to post that excerpt.

So we walked away, and I was not at ease, but was saying to myself, “He told them he was laughing at them, but it was a lie—he was laughing at me.”

That made him laugh again, and he said, “Yes, I was laughing at you, because, in fear of what others might report about you, you stoned the woman when your heart revolted at the act—but I was laughing at the others, too.”

“Why?”

“Because their case was yours.”

“How is that?”

“Well, there were sixty-eight people there, and sixty-two of them had no more desire to throw a stone than you had.” “Satan!” “Oh, it's true. I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong; but no matter, the crowd follows it. The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves. Think of it! One kind-hearted creature spies upon another, and sees to it that he loyally helps in iniquities which revolt both of them. Speaking as an expert, I know that ninety-nine out of a hundred of your race were strongly against the killing of witches when that foolishness was first agitated by a handful of pious lunatics in the long ago. And I know that even to-day, after ages of transmitted prejudice and silly teaching, only one person in twenty puts any real heart into the harrying of a witch. And yet apparently everybody hates witches and wants them killed. Some day a handful will rise up on the other side and make the most noise—perhaps even a single daring man with a big voice and a determined front will do it—and in a week all the sheep will wheel and follow him, and witch-hunting will come to a sudden end.

“Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race—the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.”

I did not like to hear our race called sheep*, and said I did not think they were.

“Still, it is true, lamb,” said Satan. “Look at you in war—what mutton you are, and how ridiculous!”

“In war? How?”

“There has never been a just one, never an honorable one—on the part of the instigator of the war. I can see a million years ahead, and this rule will never change in so many as half a dozen instances. The loud little handful—as usual—will shout for the war. The pulpit will—warily and cautiously—object—at first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, “It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it.” Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be applauded; but it will not last long; those others will outshout them, and presently the anti-war audiences will thin out and lose popularity. Before long you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men who in their secret hearts are still at one with those stoned speakers—as earlier—but do not dare to say so. And now the whole nation—pulpit and all—will take up the war-cry, and shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to open his mouth; and presently such mouths will cease to open. Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.”

*Or sheeple or sheepproles.

That perfect describes what we're up against. See also The Emperor's New Clothes.

R.C.

ReRan · 2021-11-24T20:01:55Z

Rowan Cocoan Great passage, from a great read!

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-11-24T20:07:10Z

ReRan I first read it quoted at WRH in the early/middle 90s. RC

ReRan · 2021-11-24T21:06:42Z

Rowan Cocoan And you introduced me to it last year. Thanks!

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-11-24T21:30:40Z

ReRan Twain was a gift to us all.

RC

weeman666 · 2021-11-24T17:55:10Z

Absolutely 100% deliberate! Supermarkets - yellow exemption badge,schools yellow exemption badge and then the whole of society who are exempt must wear a neck tie with Sunflowers printed on it- Sunflower named as it resembles the Sun- The Sun is technically a yellow star!!!!

HashAttack2 · 2021-11-24T18:09:26Z

I can see those NHS signs being updated soon - "Purebloods - Catch them, transport them, kill them"

Buffalo_Ken · 2021-11-24T18:11:53Z

What a shame on the authoritarians. Nazi wannabees lately.

I'm libertarian! I support liberty.

Come to the bright side -

Libertarians are welcoming!

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Spur · 2021-11-25T00:48:54Z

I'm the kind of bloke that would purchase one of those stars to wear proudly. I'd walk around smiling at people and freaking them out.

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-11-25T02:05:30Z

Spur Why am I not surprised?

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I imagine it's the same reason a serial killer continues to kill. Mentally handicapped or just good ole fashion psychopaths

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