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<ul class="summary-list"><li>The Anderson County Review, a newspaper in <keyword id="59552" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Kansas">Kansas</keyword>, last Friday <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kansas-newspaper-cartoon-face-mask-holocaust-the-anderson-county-review-2020-7">published a cartoon</a> likening the state's COVID-19 face-covering mandate to the <keyword id="6504422" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="holocaust">Holocaust</keyword>.</li><li>The cartoon depicted Gov. Laura Kelly wearing a <keyword id="72066" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="face-mask">face mask</keyword> emblazoned with a Star of David while behind her people were herded onto a cattle train.</li><li>Over the weekend the paper received widespread criticism, including from Kelly, but the newspaper's publisher, <keyword id="9526780" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="dane-hicks">Dane Hicks</keyword>, refused to take it down. Hicks is the chairman of a county GOP party.</li><li>But on Sunday, the paper removed the cartoon from its Facebook page, and Hicks apologized.</li><li>"After some heartfelt and educational conversations with Jewish leaders in the US and abroad, I can acknowledge the imagery in my recent editorial cartoon … was deeply hurtful," he wrote.</li></ul>A Kansas county Republican Party chairman and newspaper proprietor has apologized after his publication posted a cartoon on its Facebook page <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kansas-newspaper-cartoon-face-mask-holocaust-the-anderson-county-review-2020-7">likening a state face-covering mandate</a> to the Holocaust.The cartoon, published on the newspaper's Facebook page on Friday, depicted Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, wearing a protective mask with a Star of David emblazoned on it.In the background, people are being directed into rail cars alongside the caption "Lockdown Laura says: Put on your mask ... and step onto the cattle car."After criticism, Dane Hicks, the owner and publisher of The Anderson County Review, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/acreview1865/">posted a statement on Facebook</a> on Sunday announcing that he was removing the cartoon."After some heartfelt and educational conversations with Jewish leaders in the US and abroad, I can acknowledge the imagery in my recent editorial cartoon … was deeply hurtful to members of a culture who've been dealt plenty of hurt throughout history — people to whom I never desired to be hurtful in the illustration of my point," he wrote.The cartoon had come in response to Kelly's signing an executive order earlier that day, <a href="https://governor.kansas.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/20200702093130003.pdf">which requires</a> most people in the state to wear face coverings in public to try to slow the spread of the <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword>.New cases are spiking in the state. As of Friday, nearly 16,000 cases had been recorded in Kansas, <a href="https://www.kwch.com/2020/07/03/sedgwick-county-sees-another-record-of-active-covid-19-cases-state-nearing-16000/">according to KWCH 12</a>.Over the weekend there was widespread criticism of the cartoon and calls for its removal from Facebook."Mr. Hicks' decision to publish anti-Semitic imagery is deeply offensive and he should remove it immediately," Kelly said in a <a href="https://apnews.com/f1cb4583752e02f4984b19ec9c3e7363">statement to the Associated Press</a>.Hicks, who is the GOP chairman for Anderson County in eastern Kansas, had initially refused to back down, <a href="https://andersoncountyreview.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-cartoon-kellys-over-reach-holocaust.html?fbclid=IwAR1z3dLhF4VQoTVhV_Bd4XEjFezlS_Zbm0C5FDPanCXsnlmoFe-Zs85dtM4">writing in a blog post</a> that he was still planning to run the cartoon in a print edition of the newspaper."I would never apologize to them. They're liberal Marxist parasites," he wrote of critics of the cartoon at the time.

A Kansas newspaper apologized for publishing a cartoon equating the governor's coronavirus mask order to the Holocaust

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="59552" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Kansas">Kansas</keyword> Gov. Laura Kelly introduced an executive order on Friday, mandating most people in the state to wear face masks to protect against the <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword>.</li><li>That same day, local newspaper The Anderson County Review published a cartoon depicting Kelly in a mask emblazoned with a Star of David, before a scene appearing to show Jewish people being deported to Nazi concentration camps.</li><li>The paper's owner, Dane Hicks, is the chairman of the Anderson County Republican Party.</li><li>Despite widespread criticism of the image, Hicks refused to apologize and called Kelly's actions "totalitarian." Mask-wearing has become politically divisive.</li><li>Facebook told Business Insider it is investigating the post.</li></ul>A Kansas newspaper likened the state governor's compulsory face-mask order to the Holocaust with a cartoon, captioned: "Step onto the cattle car."The Anderson County Review published a cartoon depicting Gov. Laura Kelly wearing a protective <keyword id="72066" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="face-mask">face mask</keyword> emblazoned with a Star of David, against a scene showing women and children being forced onto a railway wagon. It is a clear reference to Nazi Germany deporting Jewish people to death camps where millions were murdered.The caption adds: "Lockdown Laura says: Put on your mask ... and step onto the cattle car."The cartoon was published on Facebook on Friday. The same day Kelly <a href="https://governor.kansas.gov/governor-laura-kelly-signs-executive-order-mandating-masks-in-public-spaces/">signed an executive order</a> ordering most Kansas to wear a face mask to protect against the coronavirus in public or places where they cannot socially distance.The cartoon is scheduled to print on Tuesday, according to <a href="https://apnews.com/f1cb4583752e02f4984b19ec9c3e7363">The Associated Press</a>.The newspaper's owner Dane Hicks is the chairman of the Anderson County Republican Party. Kelly, the state governor, is a Democrat.<div type="image" title="kansas laura kelly" height="600" width="1200" msid="76796642" hostid="261"></div>The cartoon has drawn widespread criticism on social media as well as across both political aisles.Kelly issued a statement to the AP saying: "Mr. Hicks' decision to publish anti-Semitic imagery is deeply offensive and he should remove it immediately."Kansas Republican Party Chairman Michael Kuckelman told the AP that posting the cartoon is "inappropriate," but noted that "it is on the newspaper Facebook page and media has wide berth" with the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of speech and the press.A Facebook spokesperson told Business Insider the platform is investigating the post.<div type="image" title="trump asa hutchinson laura kelly" height="721" width="961" msid="76796645" hostid="261"></div>Hicks has also refused to back down, saying the newspaper will continue with plans to print the cartoon on Monday."Political editorial cartoons are gross over-caricatures designed to provoke debate and response — that's why newspapers publish them — fodder for the marketplace of ideas," he wrote in an email, as cited by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/us/anderson-county-review-laura-kelly-holocaust-cartoon.html">The New York Times</a>."The topic here is the governmental overreach which has been the hallmark of Governor Kelly's administration."He said he intended no offense to Holocaust survivors, but added: "Apologies: To whom exactly? The critics on the Facebook page? Facebook is a cesspool and I only participate to develop readership."Hicks also told the AP that President Donald Trump's critics have previously compared him to Adolf Hitler. "I certainly have more evidence of that kind of totalitarianism in Kelly's actions, in an editorial cartoon sort of way, than Trump's critics do, yet they persist in it daily," he said.<div type="image" title="trump coronavirus" height="869" width="1158" msid="76796646" hostid="261"></div>The US coronavirus outbreak is currently the worst in the world, and is continuing to exacerbate.Despite extensive research showing that wearing face masks <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/face-masks-effective-in-protecting-against-coronavirus-2020-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">helps prevent coronavirus infections</a>, wearing face masks has become a politically divisive topic, with different states mandating different orders. Those against wearing face masks have skewed to the political right.Trump, who has for months refused to wear a face mask in public, told Fox Business Network earlier this week <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-says-he-looks-like-lone-ranger-in-a-mask-and-likes-it-2020-7">he was "all for masks"</a> and that "if I were in a tight situation with people I would, absolutely."He added that he "sort of liked" how he looked with one on, saying he looked like the Lone Ranger, a fictional masked western hero who fought outlaws.

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