Clarence Thomas’s wife shares post blaming Holocaust on gun control

‘These are the shoes of Jews that gave up their firearms to Hitler,’ says caption of photo shared by Virginia Thomas, spouse of US Supreme Court justice

Virginia Thomas, left, with Jeff Myers. (Facebook via JTA)
Virginia Thomas, left, with Jeff Myers. (Facebook via JTA)

WASHINGTON — The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas shared a Facebook post blaming the Holocaust in part on gun control and attacking survivors of the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida.

The post was one of several identified by The Hill on Monday as posted by Virginia Thomas. They registered strong disagreement with gun control while criticizing the survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High shooting in February that killed 17 students and faculty members.

“To all the kids that walked out of school to protest guns,” said the post, which featured a photograph of a pile of shoes of Holocaust victims. “These are the shoes of Jews that gave up their firearms to Hitler. They were led into gas chambers, murdered and buried in mass graves. Pick up a history book and you’ll realize what happens when u give up freedoms and why we have them.”

Thomas, herself a prominent conservative activist, was sharing the image from the page of an acquaintance who died recently. “This post from his page is amazing,” she wrote.

From Mike McKay's Facebook page…. he passed away last week and all my heroes at WMAL speak so fondly of his 30 years of work at WMAL. This post from his page is amazing.

Posted by Ginni Thomas on Monday, April 9, 2018

The notion that Jews may have prevented the Holocaust had they been armed, popular in some pro-gun circles, has been debunked by historians, who have noted how outnumbered Jews were in countries in which they were slaughtered.

Other posts shared by Thomas accused Parkland survivors of being “stupid,” of being manipulated by adults, and of manipulating the deaths of their fellow students and teachers to advance their agenda.

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