Anti-Vax Madness, With A Side-Order Of... Holocaust Trivialization: HatWrks Nashville Soon To Be Out Of Business.

If we hadn't lived through four long years of the insanely anti-scientific Tangerine (asleep, as Mr. Van Winkle), sensibly-educated people in 2021 might find this story (not at all representative of the vast majority of the good and well-educated people of Nashville). . . hard to believe.

But this is what blind hatred of. . . pandemic abatement bio-science spawns. It is not just that it is wrong, on the science -- it is that it equates being anti-science not just to being (properly, in my view) marginalized, but to. . . being exterminated. If you haven't seen the story, I'll link a summary version from The Tennessean -- and quote a bit (but I will not reprint the shop-owner's initial defense of her lunacy, as it is. . . unfathomably disgusting):

. . .A Nashville hat seller removed an Instagram post after fueling social media controversy selling a patch that looks like the Jewish Star of David and a Holocaust symbol.

HatWRKS, run by hatmaker Gigi Gaskins, posted a photo of a woman wearing a bright yellow star sticker with the words: "Not Vaccinated."

Social media users responded with the hashtag #HateWorks, calling the sticker anti-Semitic and "disgusting." The original Instagram post had thousands of comments before being taken down. . . .

Going out of business. . . in three. . . two. . . and. . . G O N E.

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