Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for an end to affirmative action for vaccinated people

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) weighed in on yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling striking down affirmative action in Harvard University’s admissions, and she appears to believe that LGBTQ+ people and people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 are benefiting from affirmative action as well.

“The Supreme Court’s decision is really about recognizing that all Americans are equal and race should not put one above another,” she wrote, referring to yesterday’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, where the Court put an end to Harvard University’s practice of taking race into consideration while granting admission. The affirmative action program benefited Black and Hispanic students.

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“We don’t take any of our health and medical advice from Marjorie Taylor Greene.”

“Now let’s apply this to gender, sexual orientation, vaccine status, political affiliation, and any other identity,” Greene continued.

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It’s unclear what she means regarding sexual orientation; Harvard doesn’t take sexuality into account for admissions, affirmative action programs rarely help people on the basis of LGBTQ+ identities, and federal anti-discrimination legislation doesn’t even explicitly include sexual orientation or gender identity as protected classes.

Her inclusion of “vaccine status” – there is no affirmative action program based on vaccine status in the U.S. – echoes her opposition to vaccination against COVID-19 and vaccine mandates. Greene has said that she is not vaccinated against COVID-19.

In 2021, Greene compared the Biden administration to the Nazi Party for promoting vaccinations.

“People have a choice, they don’t need your medical brown shirts showing up at their door ordering vaccinations,” she said at the time. “You can’t force people to be part of the human experiment.”

She also compared the House’s mask mandate to the Holocaust.

“You know, we can look back at a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star, and they were definitely treated like second class citizens, so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany,” Greene said. “And this is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about.” She later visited the Holocaust Museum and apologized.

Greene was also caught on hidden camera at an event telling her supporters to attack workers tasked with promoting the COVID-19 vaccines. Later that year, she called President Joe Biden a “piece of s**t” because he supported masking and vaccination to curtail the pandemic.