Anti-vaccine sentiment is strongly associated with conspiracy thinking and protection of individual freedoms, traits that are finding a home among far-right groups. @crackedscience looks at the #antivaccine movement in 2020 @gorskon @DrPaulOffit @ryarmsthttp://mcgill.ca/x/4iL
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Good article but I don’t think it’s just finding a home among the far right. There have been conspiracies about chipped vaccines for many years that tie back to far right/religious fundamentalist thinking. It’s the alleged “mark of the beast” to many. Concerns & hysteria about >>
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ppl trying to slip you the mark of the beast increased substantially during the Satanic Panic. Ppl have also been claiming “sex trafficking” victims are being chipped for a few years and some obsessives liken this to the mark of the beast as well. https://letgrow.org/sex-traffickers-are-chipping-their-victims-except-they-arent/ … >>>
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It continues to spread to other ridiculous avenues. I can understand where some think libertarians tie in. Most would have difficulties with the government mandating vaccinations. That said... libertarians do seem to be the group ppl point at when playing the blame game today >>
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on everything from vaccinations to questioning Covid19 lockdown to leftist Satanic Ritual Abuse & Recovered Memory Syndrome conspiracy theorists (there are many especially within academia, so called victims advocacy & radical/carceral feminism) claiming the pro porn & >>>
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pedophilia libertarians started the false narrative about a well known, documented and researched “satanic panic” they claim never actually happened. I don’t know all libertarians but the ones I do know tend to be left leaning, pro science, logic & reason. Many of your 1960s >>>
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sexual revolutionaries/hippies were left leaning libertarians but very pro science, etc. Not anti vaccinations but anti government overreach & pro public education on the importance of vaccine. Every group has its extremes, though.
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I rarely see contemporary use of the term libertarian that does not apply to the right-leaning "free markets" variety, who appropriated the term in the 60s/70s and popularized it in the US via oil money (as opposed to the much older form of anarchist roots).
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Yep. Words’ meanings evolve, and today “libertarian” is a right wing descriptor.
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