The anti-vaccine crowd has evidently decided their persecution can only be expressed in Holocaust metaphors. At a rally in Texas yesterday anti-vax media personality Del Bigtree pinned a yellow star on himself mid-speech.pic.twitter.com/m672NNiEzY
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None of this is new. Antivaxers have been co-opting Holocaust imagery, including the yellow Star of David, at least since 2015 during the debate over SB 277, the California law that eliminated nonmedical exemptions. @AuschwitzMuseumhttps://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/02/24/as-states-try-to-crack-down-on-non-medical-exemptions-to-school-vaccine-mandates-antivaccinationists-lose-it/ …
Indeed, no less famous a person than @RobertKennedyJr himself compared vaccination to the Holocaust.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/04/09/the-annals-of-im-not-antivaccine-part-15-robert-f-kennedy-jr-and-the-vaccine-associated-holocaust/ …
Indeed, I've written about more examples than I can remember of antivaxers comparing vaccination to the Holocaust and invoking Holocaust imagery. Again, it's nothing new. It's what they do to claim victim status.
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