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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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AIER likens anti-“lockdown” cranks to abolitionists. Hilarity ensues

Post author By Orac
Post date October 29, 2020
68 Comments on AIER likens anti-“lockdown” cranks to abolitionists. Hilarity ensues

Cranks love a heroic persecution narrative, and the climate science-denying right wing think tank American Institute of Economic Research (AIER) has a doozy: COVID-19 “anti-lockdown” cranks like Scott Atlas and those behind the Great Barrington Declaration are the new abolitionists! This is a page from the antivax playbook.

Tags AIER, American Institute for Economic Research, antivaccine, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, Focused Protection, Fugitive Slave Act, Great Barrington Declaration, herd immunity, lockdown, persecution, SARS-CoV-2, slavery, Stacey Rudin, vaccines

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