On Sunday, Arne Duncan, the secretary of education under Barack Obama, chose to publish a tweet that compared persons who are unvaccinated or who don’t wish to wear a mask to the suicide bombers who attacked the Kabul airport last Thursday. The attack at the airport killed more than a hundred people, including 13 U.S. service members.
“Have you noticed how strikingly similar both the mindsets and actions are between the suicide bombers at Kabul’s airport, and the anti-mask and anti-vax people here?” Duncan asked. “They both blow themselves up, inflict harm on those around them, and are convinced they are fighting for freedom.”
So, just days after a vicious terrorist attack that killed 13 Americans, the former Obama official thought it would be appropriate to compare people who don’t wish to use an experimental vaccine that has been linked to blood clots, pericarditis, and myocarditis to actual terrorist murderers.
While families are mourning service members killed by monsters in an act of war, the former secretary of education for the United States linked persons who are tired of wearing uncomfortable face coverings to those same monsters.
The bodies of the 13 dead Americans killed by those suicide bombers were recieved on Sunday by President Biden and his wife, Jill, at Dover Air Force Base.
Predictably, Duncan’s vicious tweet brought the ire of many.
Former Ohio Senate candidate Josh Mandel wrote, “It takes a radically out of touch and vile person to compare American Parents who don’t want our kids in masks to Muslim Terrorists who blow up our kids.”
“This tweet will just make people think mental illness is a side effect of the vaccine,” tweeted Jessica O’Donnell of The Blaze.
Twitter user Melissa Moore pointed out Duncan’s rather blatant hypocrisy by posting a screenshot of a tweet Duncan made one day earlier which called for people to treat each other with compassion juxtaposed against Duncan’s Sunday tweet which effectively referred to the unvaccinated and those who oppose wearing masks to terrorists.
Former Marine and writer Matthew Betley was especially blunt in his criticism of Duncan: “Delete your account, now, you shameless, soulless ghoul. I’m a pro-mask, pro-vaccine conservative — by personal choice because of my lung damage from Iraq, not by mandate — and you literally SUCK at this thing called being a human being.”
As of this writing, Duncan has not apologized for the tweet.
Duncan was one of the Obama administration’s longest-tenured cabinet secretaries, and served from January of 2009 through January of 2016. His tenure was marked by a loosening of education standards from the No Child Left Behind Act and an insistence on promoting the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Since working for the Obama administration, Duncan has joined the far-left Emerson Collective as a managing partner. That organization bills itself as a philanthropic and advocacy group that focuses on “creating systemic change in education, immigration, climate, and cancer research and treatment.”
The Emerson Collective was founded by Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple Computers founder Steve Jobs, in 2004. It has steadily gained a George Soros-like reputation of being a reliable funding source for far-left globalist causes.
It’s important to remember that it was not some leftist comedian publishing this vicious tweet in order to create a stir — it was the person Barack Obama chose to oversee the Department of Education. Arne Duncan was a person who held sway over our children’s education.