Row 933

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  "text": "| sub | archive |\n|-----|---------|\n| `r/libertarianmeme` | https://archive.ph/bZbAx |\n\n(You can [find links](https://i.imgur.com/5egNPpt.png) to the actual threads in the archives)\n\nThe archive didn't capture the actual meme for some reason, so here it is:\n\nhttps://i.redd.it/qjuom64bmuc81.jpg\n\nThe meme shows a Nazi era health passport (\"Gesundheitspaß\") and claims \"That's how it started. 'Health' was their excuse to track everyone.\"\n\nThe Swastika makes this document look scary. But should it really scare you? The Nazis committed horrible atrocities but they also had a country to run. Running a country includes lots of harmless bureaucracy. And this health passport is just that, harmless bureaucracy. The fact that it was branded with Nazi insignia doesn't make it any less banal.\n\nHealth passports were required for everyone who wanted to work in an industry that handled food. They were issued to everyone who applied for them but people who didn't professionally work with food didn't need one. Such health passports had to be shown as part of a job application. Restaurants, food processing plants, etc. were not allowed to hire anyone who didn't have a clean bill of health.\n\nHealth passports also didn't disappear with the Third Reich. Contemporary Germany still has health passports to this day. The German Democratic Republic had health passports too. Many countries have health passports or their local equivalent. Because they're useful. Holding food industry workers to a higher health standard than the rest of the population has obvious benefits.\n\nThe entire premise of the meme falls apart upon examination. No, the Nazis did not use health passports to track people. No, this is not how \"it\" started.\n\nIt's no coincidence that this meme appears in an English-speaking sub. The person who created this meme counted on the inability of an English-speaking audience to identify anything other than the Swastika. The shown document is meant to look scary. And, yes, the associations the Swastika evokes are scary indeed. But the shown document wasn't part of an evil scheme.\n\nThis meme is FUD. It is an appeal to fear. It is meant to paint vaccine mandates, mask mandates, travel restrictions and all other policy measures that are meant to contain the pandemic as evil. This is the sort of propaganda that gets people killed because it tricks them into rejecting potentially life-saving public health measures.",
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  "communityName": "r/DisinformationWatch",
  "datetime": "2022-01-21",
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• Entry ID: 933
• Repository: Axioma AXP
• Dataset: arrmlet/reddit_dataset_36
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