Medical racism absolutely exists, and underlies the disproportionate impact on the COVID-19 pandemic on the Black community. But correcting those disparities by claiming vaccines contribute to medical racism? That's much, much worse.
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You know what the result of discouraging Black people from getting the COVID-19 vaccine will be? More preventable deaths in the Black community. Race-based targeting with the goal of more Black people dying as a result? It's morally bankrupt and outright racist.
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Public health professionals must reckon with both the past & present reality of medical racism. It's essential for building trust. But films that exploit distrust to literally kill more Black people? We aren't trustworthy if we don't loudly oppose this for its abhorrent racism.
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Also: not directly related but the brain trust at
@JAMA_current posted this dreadful podcast denying that racism even exists in medicine because physicians can’t be racist & racism is “illegal.” It’s denial like this that gives RFK room to run with his own racist bullshit.pic.twitter.com/7Znxi5mDdV
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WTF is wrong with RFK Jr. ??!!!



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Life of priveledge
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He got banned on Instagram for his anti-vaxxing bullshit but no other social media.
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@TwitterSupport was going to be doing something about this anti vaxxer stuff? Still waiting... (have reported the tweets below and apparently they are fine, wtf@TwitterSupport ?)pic.twitter.com/XknTX8edKP
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FFS for starters no one gets autism from the mmr vaccine. This thinking has caused loss of life due to complications of measles. It's all wrong and it's disgusting he's misleading the black community.
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