Gee, I’ve been saying this persistently for at least five years now, maybe a lot longer. Glad to see that @MotherJones outlets is noticing. (Also, antivaxxers were never predominantly hippie-dippy granola crunchers. That is a myth.)https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/06/the-anti-vax-movements-radical-shift-from-crunchy-granola-purists-to-far-right-crusaders/ …
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Replying to @gorskon @MotherJones
This phenomenon has to do with resistance and anti-science bias meshed together. I think Far-right actors tend to co-opt any movement that hint at resistance against governmental authority. This resistance, unfortunately, combines well with anti-science
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Replying to @MDMasdeu @MotherJones
Actually, I've argued that it was antivaxxers who co-opted right wing messaging to attract new recruits. Antivaxxers found that messages of "freedom," "parental rights," and resistance to regulation played very well with the right.
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Because many on the far right are very prone to believing conspiracy theories to begin with, messages of "freedom" and "parental rights" served as a gateway to the conspiracy theories and pseudoscience of the antivaccine movement.
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Basically, a lot of right wingers came for the antivaccine messages of "freedom," "parental rights," and resistance to government regulation, and then stayed for the conspiracy theories, turning into antivaxxers themselves the longer they stayed.
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