Yeah I was wondering if that was a recent origin point
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Replying to @Lollardfish @chloe_adlestone
He was the first I saw but there could have been others.
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It’s an antivax trope that goes back several years, at least.
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have you ever written about antivax and the yellow star?
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Several times. Search
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Replying to @gorskon @Lollardfish and
Here’s a post about antivaxxers misusing the yellow Star of David from 2015.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/02/24/as-states-try-to-crack-down-on-non-medical-exemptions-to-school-vaccine-mandates-antivaccinationists-lose-it/ …
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Replying to @Lollardfish @aetiology and
I think antivaxxers first latched onto this analogy during their political battle against California SB 277 in that year.
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Of course, antivaxxers did love to use Holocaust analogies aside from missing the yellow Star long before that.
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Replying to @gorskon @aetiology
Yeah I mean I’m aware of the general comparison to any attempt to create a public good as either the Holocaust, apocalypse, or both. But the specific fix on the yellow badge in connection to documents verifying vaccination is interesting semiotically (and vile obviously).
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True, but six years ago there was no talk of anything like a “ vaccine passport.” They invoke the yellow Star over a requirement by the state that children have had certain vaccines before they could attend school or daycare.
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