Antivaxxers trying to co-opt Juneteenth is a natural evolution of a strategy that started years ago and, pre-pandemic, led them to call themselves the "new civil rights movement." 2/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/09/10/sb-276-new-civil-rights-movement/ …
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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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