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Antivaccine nonsense Politics

Antivaxxers invoke segregation and Jim Crow to attack COVID-19 vaccination requirements

Post author By Orac
Post date August 9, 2021
83 Comments on Antivaxxers invoke segregation and Jim Crow to attack COVID-19 vaccination requirements

Vaccine passports are not segregation like this — Contrary to what antivaxxers claim, COVID-19 vaccine requirements are not the equivalent of this.

Before the pandemic, antivaxxers tried to don the mantle of the “new civil rights movement.” Now they’re invoking segregation and Jim Crow over COVID-19 vaccination requirements.

Tags antimask, antivaccine, Bill de Blasio, civil rights, civil rights movement, COVID, COVID denial, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 vaccine, Jim Crow, New York, New York City, segregation, vaccines

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Juneteenth and Naomi Wolf: Antivaxxers co-opt another symbol to portray themselves as “oppressed”

Post author By Orac
Post date June 15, 2021
56 Comments on Juneteenth and Naomi Wolf: Antivaxxers co-opt another symbol to portray themselves as “oppressed”

Antivaxxers love to claim the mantle of the oppressed, even going so far as to use the Yellow Star of David to liken their “oppression” to that of the Jews under the Nazis. Now they’re trying to top even that by co-opting Juneteenth.

Tags antivaccine, civil rights movement, Holocaust, Holocaust denial, Juneteenth, Naomi Wolf, slavery, vaccines, Yellow Star, Yellow Star of David

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