MI: Republican Jewish Coalition leader blasts 'offensive' state party tweet, image

[RandySF]

The CEO of the Republican Jewish Coalition blasted an “offensive” tweet from the Michigan State Republican Party on Wednesday that used a photo from the Holocaust to criticize gun safety efforts.

“This tweet by @MIGOP is absolutely inappropriate and offensive and should be taken down immediately,” Republican Jewish Coalition CEO Matt Brooks wrote on Twitter.

The Michigan Republican Party’s official Twitter account posted a photo Wednesday morning with the text “before they collected all these wedding rings… they collected all the guns.” The image in the post is a photo from 1945 of wedding rings removed from victims of the Holocaust, according to the National Archives.

“#History has shown us that the first thing a government does when it wants total control over its people is to disarm them. President Reagan once stated, “if we lose #freedom here, there is nowhere else to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth.” #2A #GOP” the tweet reads.

The Michigan Republican Party posted the same photo on its official Facebook page with a longer caption, which warned of having a “disarmed population” and mentioned “a corrupt and tyrannical government.” It zeroed in on extreme risk protection orders — commonly referred to as red flag laws — which the state Senate approved last week as part of a gun safety package.



https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3912865-republican-jewish-coalition-leader-blasts-offensive-state-party-tweet-image/

[Lovie777]

1. It's beyond me that there are still Jews supporting the GQPs..............

and this goes to POC and LGBTQ as well.

[DavidDvorkin]

2. Indeed

There must be major cognitive dissonance going on.

[JudyM]

3. The tweet is still up. Stupefyingly tone-deaf ignorance is the best we could say.

Missing their hearts, more like.