KRAMER: "This is America! I don't have to wear anything I don't want to wear!" Replace The Word Ribbon With Mask
Seinfeld Ribbon Episode Strikes a 2020 Chord
📣 In 2020 and still in certain places today, freedom warriors who say or said no to wearing a mask were bullied, demonized, and ousted by “polite” society. Some of us lost job opportunities such as Cafecito Break for refusing to comply.
Mask Tyrants got angry when people said no. Some could not accept that people didn’t or couldn’t wear a mask. Others forgot that their actions were infringing upon the rights of others.
We will never forget. And we can not dismiss this dark time in history because we are doomed to repeat it if we don’t learn. Punto.
REPLACE THE WORD RIBBON FOR MASKS
KRAMER (to organizer at desk): Uh, Cosmo Kramer?
ORGANIZER: Uh...o.k., you're checked in. Here's your AIDS ribbon.
KRAMER: Uh, no thanks.
ORGANIZER: You don't want to wear an AIDS ribbon?
KRAMER: No.
ORGANIZER: But you have to wear an AIDS ribbon.
KRAMER: I have to?
ORGANIZER: Yes.
KRAMER: See, that's why I don't want to.
ORGANIZER: But everyone wears the ribbon. You must wear the ribbon!
KRAMER: You know what you are? You're a ribbon bully. <Walks away.>
ORGANIZER: Hey you! Come back here! Come back here and put this on!
New scene - Kramer in the AIDS walk.
WALKER #1: Hey, where's your ribbon?
KRAMER: Oh, I don't wear the ribbon.
WALKER #2: Oh, you don't wear the ribbon? Aren't you against AIDS?
KRAMER: Yeah, I'm against AIDS. I mean, I'm walking, aren't I? I just don't wear the ribbon.
WALKER #3: Who do you think you are?
WALKER #1: Put the ribbon on!
WALKER #2: Hey, Cedric! Bob! This guy won't wear a ribbon! <Cedric and Bob turn around and glare at Kramer.>
BOB: Who? Who does not want to wear the ribbon? <Kramer is frightened.>
New scene - Kramer surrounded by Cedric, Bob, and the other walkers.
BOB: So! What's it going to be? Are you going to wear the ribbon?
KRAMER (nervously): No! Never.
BOB: But I am wearing the ribbon. He is wearing the ribbon. We are all wearing the ribbon! So why aren't you going to wear the ribbon!?
KRAMER: This is America! I don't have to wear anything I don't want to wear!
CEDRIC: What are we gonna do with him?
BOB: I guess we are just going to have to teach him to wear the ribbon!
<Kramer tries to climb up a fire escape, but the mob grabs him and pulls him back down. Kramer screams.>
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