This is just the next step in a longstanding antivax strategy to portray themselves as an oppressed minority. Their misuse of the Yellow Star of David is the most egregious example of course. 1/https://twitter.com/nicolekarlis/status/1403137087801499650 …
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As an aside, if the anti-Asian bigotry among antivaxxers that we've seen during the
#COVID19 era is nothing new. Get a load of these images likening@DrPanMD and other Asian supporters of vaccine mandates to Chairman Mao. 3/ https://www.facebook.com/APILegCaucus/posts/2247092362083547 …Show this thread -
Even back then, antivaxxers were aligning themselves with far right extremist groups like the California State Militia. 4/https://twitter.com/thereal_truther/status/1171087256787939330 …
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And, of course...
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In an event that rather presaged January 6, they also, in essence, took over the California State Capitol Building in 2019. Sound familiar? 6/https://twitter.com/katie_hanz/status/1171168710083502080 …
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Again, does this sound familiar? 7/https://twitter.com/MelodyGutierrez/status/1171170474342006784 …
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They threatened
@DrPanMD, as well. Sound familiar? 8/https://twitter.com/LMiddleton221/status/1171139362395848704 …Show this thread -
Before they claimed to be the "new civil rights movement," antivaxxers were furiously trying to recruit Blacks to their cause, perhaps realizing how white and privileged they were. 9/
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For example, in 2016, Andrew Wakefield and Del Bigtree held an antivaccine event in Compton. 10/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2016/05/25/andrew-wakefield-and-del-bigtree-privileged-white-males-harming-african-americans-with-antivaccine-misinformation/ …
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In 2019,
@RobertKennedyJr promoted antivaccine conspiracy theories in Harlem. 11/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/10/04/is-al-sharpton-antivaccine/ …Show this thread -
Here's a brief history of what I knew in 2019 about antivax efforts to recruit Blacks and other minorities to their conspiracy theories. 12/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/11/12/antivaxers-targeting-minorities/ …
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Indeed, the entire "CDC whistleblower" conspiracy theory at the art of the antivaccine propaganda film disguised as a documentary VAXXED was that
@CDCgov was "hiding" evidence that the MMR vaccine increases the risk of autism by 4-fold in Black boys. 13/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2016/07/18/in-which-andrew-wakefield-and-del-bigtrees-antivaccine-documentary-vaxxed-is-reviewed-with-insolence/ …Show this thread -
It's a key reason why antivaxxers have long compared school vaccine mandates to the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, a comparison that has been turbocharged since
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Given how antivaxxers have co-opted the Tuskegee syphilis experiment and the 1950s and 1960s civil rights movement to claim the mantle of an "oppressed minority" (even though they are mostly white and privileged), it should be no surprise they'd abuse Juneteenth, too. 15/15
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