That's not all, though! Around the same time, while a deadly measles epidemic was raging in Samoa, RFK Jr. gave aid and comfort to local antivaxxers and even wrote a letter to the Samoan Prime Minister falsely calling the MMR "defective." 9/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/12/05/samoa-measles-outbreak-malielegaoi/ …
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Basically, antivaxxers, RFK Jr included, have been waging a very conscious campaign to attract minorities, especially black people, to their cause, often invoking the specter of the Tuskegee experiment to prey on the understandable distrust people of color have of doctors. 10/
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For example, over a decade ago, antivaxxers started targeting the Somali immigrant community in Minnesota with antivaccine messages. The result? Repeated measles outbreaks in that community over the last decade. 11/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/outbreaks-among-somali-immigrants-in-minnesota-thanks-for-the-measles-again-andy/ …
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Meanwhile,
@delbigtree and Andrew Wakefield promoted the#CDCwhistleblower conspiracy theory, a major part of which is that@CDCgov "covered up" evidence that MMR increased the risk of autism in African-American boys by over three-fold. 12/1 reply 3 retweets 22 likesShow this thread -
This conspiracy theory was the basis of the antivaccine propaganda film disguised as a documentary,
@vaxxedthemovie. 13/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/andrew-wakefields-vaxxed-antivaccine-propaganda-at-its-most-pernicious/ …1 reply 3 retweets 22 likesShow this thread -
Basically, it is a feature, not a bug, of older white male antivaxxers to play the "white savior" role trying to "save" minorities from what they view as "vaccine injury." 14/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/11/12/antivaxers-targeting-minorities/ …
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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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David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Brian Hickey
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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David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Dr. Angela Rasmussen
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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Dr. Angela RasmussenVerified account @angie_rasmussenPublic health professionals must reckon with both the past & present reality of medical racism. It's essential for building trust. But films that exploit distrust to literally kill more Black people? We aren't trustworthy if we don't loudly oppose this for its abhorrent racism.Show this thread2 replies 3 retweets 24 likesShow this thread
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. 20/203 replies 4 retweets 34 likesShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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It's not about the anti vaccine movement, it's about"safe vaccination" for everyone
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