Those Protesting COVID-19 Stay at Home Orders Are Nothing Like Rosa Parks

A couple of days ago I referred to those who saw fit to protest COVID-19 stay at home orders as fucking idiots.

Let me add Stephen Moore to the fucking idiot list.

Moore, appointed by President Trump a few days ago to the White House Council to Reopen America, expressed his support for stay at home protesters by likening them to Rosa Parks.

Yes, that Rosa Parks.

“I call these people the modern-day Rosa Parks," said Moore, "They are protesting against injustice and a loss of liberties.”

Earlier this week, Moore also invoked the civil rights icon in referring to protesters in Wisconsin. Moore exclaimed, “This is a great time, gentlemen and ladies, for civil disobedience. We need to be the Rosa Parks here and protest against these government injustices.”

In 1955, Rosa Parks protested the injustice of African-Americans being forced to give up their seats and move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Well, given these protesters propensity to carry the Confederate flag I very much doubt they would have supported Parks' act of civil disobedience nearly 65 years ago. Those who protest COVID-19 stay at home orders are nothing like Rosa Parks.

Let us also remember that Moore once joked shortly after President Trump's election “By the way, did you see, there’s that great cartoon going along? A New York Times headline: ‘First Thing Donald Trump Does As President Is Kick a Black Family Out of Public Housing,’ and it has Obama leaving the White House." Anyone who makes a joke like hasn't a clue about Rosa Parks and thing for which she stood. On in her case remained seated.

The COVID-19 stay at home orders are not directed against a particular segment of the population. They apply equally to all Americans. Because COVID-19 does not care if you are black, white, blue or red.