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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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