Goodbye, and good riddance.
The head prosecutor for Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg’s trial division resigned Monday after posting a meme on Facebook last week that equated protesters who remove Confederate statutes with Nazis.
The meme posted by the veteran prosecutor last week shows a black-and-white photograph of hands holding an overflowing bin of rings.
It says, “Wedding bands that were removed from Holocaust victims prior to being executed, 1945. Each ring represents a destroyed family. Never forget, Nazis tore down statues. Banned free speech. Blamed economic hardships on one group of people. Instituted gun control. Sound Familiar?”
Assistant District Attorney Kaylynn Williford said in a statement that she took down the post after a friend’s daughter and later a Jewish lawyer told her they found it offensive to compare the two groups. Williford, a 28-year-veteran of the office who has tried major capital cases, said this was never her intent.
She posted it, she said, because she thought it was “thought provoking and promoted tolerance.”
You can see what she posted in that earlier story, which came out over the weekend. I held off on posting about this mostly because I wanted to see what the reaction from the DA’s office was going to be first. A group of Democratic State Reps had called for her resignation earlier in the day, and eventually got what they asked for. All I can say is that if Kaylynn Williford really truly had no idea that her stupid image was offensive and why it was offensive, then she should have been fired years ago and should never get on Facebook again. Even if you were to somehow grant her some kind of Sleeping Beauty-level exemption for deeply childlike innocent ignorance, the controlling principle of “don’t post political shit to Facebook if you don’t understand it” should apply. You know the old saying about how it’s better to keep silent and be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt? It was for situations like this that it was first uttered. Keri Blakinger has more.
She should have never posted it. She should resign. However, Republicans have been compared to Nazis all over America all the time by Democrats. It is their talking points. Every time a Democrat calls a Republican a Nazi (who are murders) they legitimize the Nazi’s. If a Republican agrees with Trump then he is a racist no matter what. I have been told right here on this sight that I am part of the reason people have died here in America. I see no difference between her and what I see on this sight nearly everyday.