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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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
Have also seen a handful of social media profiles that are yellow stars reading “anti vax.”
The Rockland, NY quarantine on unvaccinated minors to handle a measles outbreak is generating some very intense emotions on that side and conspiracy peddlers like the Health Ranger are swooping inpic.twitter.com/RsmF6gD6oS
Some of the communities with low vax rates are Haredi Jews, which is creating some truly fucked up interactions, as the NYT wrote about. They probably don’t love the yellow star imagery though.https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/nyregion/measles-jewish-community.amp.html …
Anna Merlan Retweeted Auschwitz Memorial
The Auschwitz Memorial is truly not thrilled about any of thishttps://twitter.com/auschwitzmuseum/status/1111703636713852928?s=21 …
Anna Merlan added,
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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