Antivax really started moving into the right wing mainstream in 2015, as California passed SB 277, a law eliminating nonmedical exemptions to school vaccine mandates. That's when antivaxxers learned to attract the right with anti-gov messages of "freedom" and "parental rights."https://twitter.com/Lollardfish/status/1415041007532576774 …
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Replying to @gorskon
When vaccines came up at the GOP debate a few months after SB277 was signed:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye7CtNEUm8M …
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Yep. It was the second
@GOP primary debate for the 2016 election cycle. I wrote about it on@ScienceBasedMed at the time.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/donald-trump-and-the-dangerous-vaccine-politics-of-the-2016-presidential-race/ …1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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Before that, in February 2015, when asked about vaccines,
@GOP candidate@RandPaul replied, "The state doesn’t own the children. Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom.” Yes, he really said that.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/02/03/is-republican-party-becoming-antivaccine-party/ …2 replies 3 retweets 14 likes
I thought that Freudian slip by @RandPaul was very telling when it came to right wing antivax attitudes. They really do believe that their children are property, rather than beings with rights of their own apart from the parents who are only temporarily the wards of the parents.
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