The Fruit of Islam (the Nation of Islam's security detail) has even been known to provide security for RFK Jr.'s appearances from time to time, as they showed up at various protests that RFK Jr. took organized or took part in. 4/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/10/28/cranks-of-a-feather-part-3/ …
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Antivaxxers even go so far as to portray their movement as the "new civil rights movement." It's mind-bogglingly privileged of them, to liken their struggles to that of blacks trying to achieve equal rights, but they do it all the time. 15/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/09/10/sb-276-new-civil-rights-movement/ …
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This image shows what I mean. Notice the paucity of melanin in the protesters holding the signs proclaiming the antivaccine movement to be the "new civil rights movement." 16/https://twitter.com/kcraBrianHickey/status/1171092433913860096?s=20 …
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I admit it. I got rather snarky when I saw that image. 17/https://twitter.com/gorskon/status/1171146898197098502?s=20 …
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In any event, Dr. Rasmussen characterized this vileness more succinctly than I could. It's the ultimate expression of white privilege to co-opt the language of civil rights to spread a message that during a pandemic will kill black people. 18/https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1367262596739391488?s=20 …
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None of this surprises those of us who've been combatting the antivaccine movement for many years. Trying to recruit people of color to what is mostly a lily white movement is what antivaxxers do. 19/
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Antivaxxers preying on the understandable distrust African-Americans have of the medical establishment in order to sow fear, uncertainty, and doubt about
#COVID19Vaccine is just continuation of their long history of doing the same thing. 20/20Show this thread
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