Essex-Westford school board member draws backlash for Holocaust comparison [View all]

member of the Essex-Westford School District board drew swift criticism online for an essay that equated public discourse about unvaccinated people and Jews in Nazi Germany.

In an essay published by True North Reports and the Vermont Daily Chronicle earlier this week, Essex-Westford board member Liz Cady wrote that the same “rhetoric” describing people who are not vaccinated against Covid-19 “was used in the years leading to WWII and during.”

During the Holocaust, “Religion and race were used instead of vaccination status,” Cady wrote. “I am not comparing what is happening now to the horrific genocide that took place in WWII, but I do believe we need to acknowledge the comparison of how that hate started then and how it is happening now: separating people into a desired group versus an undesired one.”

The essay sparked an immediate backlash online. Essex-Westford Superintendent Beth Cobb wrote on Twitter that she and school board Chair Erin Knox “would like to state unequivocally that nothing in Cady’s article represents the policies or beliefs of our school district.”

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