Twitter Ponders The Concept Of 'Dealbreakers' After Cheryl Hines Says She Disagrees With Her Husband RFK's Views On The Holocaust
Cheryl Hines, best known for playing Larry David's wife on Curb Your Enthusiasm, is married to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent anti-vaxxer who appears to have a fandom in QAnon. One imagines the pair has some key differences of opinion on current events, and one such key difference was aired for the world to see after Kennedy spoke at an anti-vaccination mandate rally in Washington D.C. and compared the government's insistence to take life-saving, pandemic-mitigating vaccines to the Holocaust.
Obviously, the mass genocide committed by the Nazis in Germany is not the same as the government mandating its citizens to take a life-saving medicine, and the backlash was swift. This put Hines in an awkward position, as she felt she had to publicly come out against her own husband's comments.
As Hines made clear she did not think that the comparison of COVID-19 vaccines to the holocaust was in good taste, social media users pondered the concept of "dealbreakers," a term used to describe a flaw in a potential partner that would cause one to end a relationship.
I do not understand how @cherylhines could spend so many years on Curb Your Enthusiasm, a show dedicated to celebrating Judaic culture, yet stay married to RFK Jr, a man who says being asked to wear a mask is "exactly" like torturing and brutally murdering 6,000,000 Jews.
— NewbieHoward ✡️ (@NewbieHoward) January 25, 2022
Kennedy later apologized for his remarks, saying his "intention was to use examples of past barbarism to show the perils from new technologies of control," though conspiracies that 5G and vaccines are tools of government control have already been thoroughly disproven.
I apologize for my reference to Anne Frank, especially to families that suffered the Holocaust horrors. My intention was to use examples of past barbarism to show the perils from new technologies of control. To the extent my remarks caused hurt, I am truly and deeply sorry.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) January 25, 2022
While the world may never understand how Kennedy and Hines' marriage operates despite their strong differences on key issues, one can imagine Larry David is somewhere watching all this happen to his co-star and making a flustered face.
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Chewybunny
I really wish people who compare anything to the 30s and 40s would actually read up on it a bit more.
In this case, I can see how you can find some similarities between what Jews experienced in Germany before the Holocaust itself, i.e. being persecuted, explicitly turned into second rate citizens, made certain that you carried your proper papers with you. But that happened before the Holocaust. Yeah, it absolutely sucks that you are being demanded by the government to undergo a medical procedure or face a penalty, and that is ethically and morally crossing the line. But this is no where near as putting people into concentration camps, and exterminating them on an industrial scale. You make yourselves look like idiots, and you trivializing one of the worst events of the 20th century.
DirkDiggums
Isn't this the same crowd that got triggered every time the liberals compared Trump and his base to fascists and Nazis? Now they are doing the same Godwin's Law bullshit because it's politically convenient. No one has principles anymore, it's all about winning the argument through extreme rhetoric and no regard for hypocrisy.
Raul Satisacro