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 …
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David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted The Real Truther
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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The Real Truther @thereal_trutherLast week the#antivax opposition to#SB276 took a break from aligning with#Scientology to welcome the Oath Keepers, an anti-government far-right "militia" recognized by The Southern Poverty Law Center as an extremist group w/ white supremacist views. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/17/white-supremacists-militias-private-police-215498 … pic.twitter.com/4v4AEeo2dNShow this thread1 reply 3 retweets 15 likesShow this thread -
David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Lorena Gonzalez
And, of course...
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David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Katie Hanzlik
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 …
David Gorski, MD, PhD added,
0:06Katie Hanzlik @katie_hanzSo grateful for the sergeants right now. We honestly feel like our office is about to get stormed but I know they are out there keeping this under control. It sounds like they are banging on our doors (they are banging on the doors to the Senate gallery)#CAleg pic.twitter.com/my9zHo1ugVShow this thread1 reply 4 retweets 15 likesShow this thread -
David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Melody Gutierrez
Again, does this sound familiar? 7/https://twitter.com/MelodyGutierrez/status/1171170474342006784 …
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David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted L Middleton
They threatened
@DrPanMD, as well. Sound familiar? 8/https://twitter.com/LMiddleton221/status/1171139362395848704 …David Gorski, MD, PhD added,
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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/ …1 reply 1 retweet 15 likesShow 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/ …
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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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