White Suicide, Black Genocide: The Psychic Life of Labor and Freedom in Anti-Masking Movements by Joshua Falek, Patrick Teed

“…One sign in particular, held by a white woman in an American flag mask, drew particular attention: “ARBEIT MACHT FREI, JB,” invoking the German phrase hung above Nazi concentration camps to taunt the then governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker. Reactions to this anonymous woman were swift, but critics missed that “ARBEIT MACHT FREI, JB” merely represented the front of the sign. …”
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