It goes beyond that, though. Last year, just a month or two before #COVID19 hit Wuhan, China, RFK Jr. was in Harlem with @curtiscost trying to convince the residents there of the danger of vaccines. 5/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/10/23/harlem-vaccine-forum-rfk/ …
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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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Then might I suggest beating them with police batons, clearing them off the streets with fire hoses & releasing attack canines on their gatherings? That is, after all, how peaceful protests for civil rights are dealt with in America.
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