Arne Duncan, the secretary of education most of Barack Obama’s presidency, triggered a tsunami of backlash Sunday when he compared terrorist suicide bombers to “anti-mask and anti-vax” Americans.
What did Duncan say?
According to Duncan, Americans opposed to face masks and vaccines are “strikingly similar” to the terrorists who carried out the attack outside the Kabul airport last week.
“Have you noticed how strikingly similar both the mindsets and actions are between the suicide bombers at Kabul’s airport, and the anti-mask and anti-vax people here?” Duncan wrote on Twitter. “They both blow themselves up, inflict harm on those around them, and are convinced they are fighting for freedom.”
Have you noticed how strikingly similar both the mindsets and actions are between the suicide bombers at Kabul’s ai… https://t.co/7ZOcRsP2Cp
— Arne Duncan (@Arne Duncan)1630244248.0
In addition to leading the Education Department from 2009 to 2016, Duncan also served as the CEO of Chicago Public Schools from 2001 until 2009.
What was the reaction?
Duncan’s comparison was swiftly rebuked as critics pointed to Duncan’s comments as symbolic of problems within the ruling class.
- “This guy was US Secretary of Education under Obama. Explains all you need to know about our failing, embarrassing education system.
Parents need re-think government education & ha doing their precious kids over to people like this for 8 hrs a day,” Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy
said. - “[T]his tweet will just make people think mental illness is a side effect of the vaccine,” another person said.
- “Knowing this guy ran Dept of Ed for eight years under Obama explains all the insanity in our public schools happening right now, doesn’t it?” radio host Larry O’Connor said.
- “The strongest case against ‘mask mandate!’ religious fervor I’ve seen.
I’d laugh at this clown, but I’ve lived long enough to know how dangerous these folks are,” Fox News host Joey Jones
said. - “If people are wondering why our country’s education system is in the pits, this guy ran things for 8 years,” Brent Scher, executive editor at the Washington Free Beacon, said.
- “No. I haven’t… because they’re not similar. You lack a soul and brain. The only thing striking is your ignorance,” radio host Jason Rantz said.
- “So disrespectful. You owe those military families an apology for using them like this. Disgusting,” another person said.
- “No, but I did notice similarities to the Taliban’s control of its people to ‘the woke left’ trying to do the same,” one person mocked.
- “The most troubling similarity is to people like you, who see their ideology as so superior that any use of force in its behalf is entirely justified.
No American should ever forget that the ONE property that defines government is its ability to use violence against citizens,” former Rep. Nan Hayworth (R-Md.), who is also a doctor,
said.
Last week, Gen. Michael Hayden, former director of the National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency, made headlines after saying it would be a “good idea” to send unvaccinated supporters of Donald Trump to Afghanistan.
Typical out of focus comment by a lib. There is a whole world of difference between someone that is against something and someone who ACTIVELY takes horrific actions. He won’t be able to see the difference though (his ilk never do).
Why haven’t the Morons. Been removed from Washington D.C. and across the whole Country. They are America’s Enemy. But everyone higher up Talks about it. But does nothing. Start Grouping the Normal Americans together. And let’s dispose of this Dog Shit in our Country. Everything will go back to Normal. Once the Enemy is gone Permanently
AGREED, RUN THESE THUGS OUT ON A RAIL.
Why do people do this sort of thing, are they just trying to get attention? The mind set of many on the left is appalling to say the least!
Vaccines don’t prevent you from getting or passing on Covid-19, they just reduce the person’s reaction to the virus. So:
1 – The unvaccinated are putting themselves at risk more than other people.
2 – When the no-maskers/no-vaxers stopped wearing masks in public there was a minor increase in the spread in Covid-19. The more recent spikes have been a result of the maskers/vaxers actions. They don’t have the facts and think that vaccination is a magic bullet when it isn’t. The no-maskers/no-vaxers still applied common sense to their actions.
Actually, the unvaccinated aren’t putting themselves at risk. The most at risk are thr vaccinated. Britain reported a hospitalization with 60% having at least 2 doses. Other countries have noted similar stats but not hear in the states. Find that odd? It is because we’re not gdtting a daily ticker of deaths/adverse events to the “vaccine” like we were with the virus. Also, immunologists are saying the vaxzed are at a greater risk because this is a flu, you can’t mask it or vaxx it away, and it’s likely telling your body incorrectly hoe to fight it. Since 2000 thisnhas been the problem with all coronavirus vaccines. Everything and anything with those vaccines died from lung disease within 4 years. If you’re vaxxed, increase your life insurance for your loved ones. They created it and now its here for good!
The only freedom this pile of human debris understands is what his ilk are willing to ‘grant’ to the Great Unwashed, but only if they will go along with their boundless stupidity. For the good of the nation such people should be hanged.
Earth is heading toward a massive human cleansing. 1.5 billion humans will occupy the planet when the current efforts to deplete humanity is done. Currently there are 8 billion people. Covid is a device by which to separate those who will remain and those who will be exterminated very shortly…
No wonder the U.S education system is sooo bad, with people like this serving 8 years under OB. They do more to incite terrorism than anyone else. Why do you think they are hiding the figures for the vaxed, who are becoming ill and dying at a higher rate than all other vaccines combined.
Apparently this SFB doesn’t know the difference between one standing up to protect their rights and one trying to take them away.
The so-called educated are such morons….
These types of anti-American, anti-freedom democrat pieces of shit should be vaccinated, with a small lead injection, administered at high velocity to the backs of their heads!
This is so typical for democratic thinking. Hey Dems, why don’t you all take the shots so in less than 2 years there will be none of you left and America can come back stronger than ever.
Comparing anti vaxxers to suicide bombers is totally ludicrous. I will never take the shots unlike several of my family members. I am a retired ER nurse and all the nurses I used to work with are anti vax as well. What does that tell you about the trust in medicine