Notice Tim doing the thing where (some) white people are presumed to be making voluntary choices for which they are responsible, but non-white people are not. Vaccines are now pervasively available. Don't pretend that only one of the resistant populations is resistant.https://twitter.com/Timodc/status/1416503792707665923 …
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You can see the existence of those groups in the datahttps://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/us-vaccine-demographics.html …
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The idea that we should mockingly dunk on some ordinary folks who have a bad opinion while weeping crocodile tears for other ordinary folks who have the same opinion, distinguished only by their partisan voting patterns, is everything wrong with Extremely Online Partisanship.
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Any political party that contends for a majority will have a lot of people in it who are ignorant, resentful, bigoted, superstitious, and/or just plain stupid. This has always been true of all major parties in any democracy. Half the voters are below average in anything.
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"Our voters have excuses for their dumbassery, yours don't" is hackery. Everybody has their dumbasses.
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As for the
@michaelbd point about public health officials needing to meet all of these vaccine skeptics where they are: facts may not care about your feelings, but when you're charged with moving public sentiment, the feelings of the public are facts in & of themselves.18 replies 12 retweets 128 likesShow this thread -
Put another way: if you want to convince people to stop being wrong, you have to take account of why they are wrong. That includes both good & bad reasons for being wrong. That's as true if you're selling vaccines as if you're selling cigarettes, life insurance, or Jeb Bush.
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Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Fred Bauer
This is also true, but also not a complete explanation. Anti-vaxx opinion may be more prevalent further down the social class scale, but it definitely has major pockets at all stages of that scalehttps://twitter.com/fredbauerblog/status/1416070086486597635 …
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Fred BauerVerified account @fredbauerblogThere's a case to be made that punditocracy (which is super-obsessed with partisan narratives around Trump) underestimates the class (and social-capital) valences of vaccine hesitancy. "Belmont" tends to be much more pro-vaccine, while "Fishtown" is more hesitant.Show this thread4 replies 2 retweets 45 likesShow this thread -
Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Kyle Smith
In case you need background on why a certain faction of NR's critics are so testy today.https://twitter.com/rkylesmith/status/1416502670626525192 …
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Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Heath Mayo
Look at what people actually say: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/07/vaccine-equity-black-americans-biden-491973 … https://www.npr.org/2020/12/10/945136592/many-hispanic-and-black-people-say-they-are-skeptical-about-covid-19-vaccine … https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2021/01/25/skepticism-and-mistrust-challenge-covid-vaccine-uptake-for-latinos/ … https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/20210202/black-vaccine-hesitancy-rooted-in-mistrust-doubts … https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article250171290.html … https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/11/23/covid-vaccine-hesitancy/ … https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article249017040.html … https://time.com/5925074/black-americans-covid-19-vaccine-distrust/ …https://twitter.com/HeathMayo/status/1416824541708390400 …
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Heath Mayo @HeathMayoDan, do you really think Black & Hispanic populations are *resisting* the vaccine? Or just have access issues? You seem to be suggesting the former here.. I don’t see these communities waging all-out disinfo campaigns & beating their chests about not taking the vaccine. Do you? https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1416501187164131333 …Show this thread7 replies 14 retweets 38 likesShow this thread
Where there has been success in breaking down black mistrust of the vaccine, guess which strategy worked: 1) Mocking people for being anti-vaxx 2) Reaching out through people they already trustedhttps://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/getting-clearer-picture-black-americans-factors-overcame-their-vaccine-hesitancy-n1263787 …
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Replying to @baseballcrank
It would be great if you guys could replicate this in conservative world but everyone conservatives trust are telling them outrageous lies about the vaccine to do everything they can to stop them from taking it
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Replying to @PeterMDavies80 @baseballcrank
Right? He still doesn’t answer the question around active disinformation and propaganda campaigns by Fox and it’s contributors.
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