I think the anti-vax thing is borne of a distrust in mainstream culture taken way too far.
You’ve got the hippy dippy vegan raw food fixie bike Macbook Air crystal healing hibbity jibbity crowd. As prone to woo thinking as they are, they can raise a legitimate point that the medical and pharmaceutical industries contain no small amount of bullshit that needs to be addressed, they tend to take it to an extreme and swear off science as a whole.
Then you’ve got the truck nuts gun fuck church of Fox News racist asshole crowd. These folks tend to not be well traveled or well read, they’re not exposed to a lot of ideas, they have their in group, which means people who look like, talk like, sound like, and hate like them, or there’s exile. Appearances are everything. You have to be seen hating what the group hates. What does the group hate? Whatever it is that The Other wants. In this case, The Other are Democrats. Democrats want people to take vaccines, they have to thoroughly hate vaccines. Democrats want clean energy? They have to be seen breaking solar panels and spewing black smoke from their gigantic trucks. It’s all performative hatred.
Well, and it doesn’t help when, for example, the US government administered STDs under the guise of vaccines (see Tuskegee study). Let’s not forget that bullshit and how that echoes through generations…who we put in our government fuckin matters!
Unfortunately the antivaccine BS doesn’t subscribe to one political ideology
It used to be largely confined to the weirdo left and the conspiracy theorist right. Now it’s all over the place.
Yeah we have covid and the right wing media to thank (or blame)
And Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey.
Ugh. Didn’t know about Jim Carrey… What a shame.
I read a statistic that in the US 37% of conservatives and 9% of liberals didn’t get vaccinated. So it favours the right more.
I wonder why
I think the anti-vax thing is borne of a distrust in mainstream culture taken way too far.
You’ve got the hippy dippy vegan raw food fixie bike Macbook Air crystal healing hibbity jibbity crowd. As prone to woo thinking as they are, they can raise a legitimate point that the medical and pharmaceutical industries contain no small amount of bullshit that needs to be addressed, they tend to take it to an extreme and swear off science as a whole.
Then you’ve got the truck nuts gun fuck church of Fox News racist asshole crowd. These folks tend to not be well traveled or well read, they’re not exposed to a lot of ideas, they have their in group, which means people who look like, talk like, sound like, and hate like them, or there’s exile. Appearances are everything. You have to be seen hating what the group hates. What does the group hate? Whatever it is that The Other wants. In this case, The Other are Democrats. Democrats want people to take vaccines, they have to thoroughly hate vaccines. Democrats want clean energy? They have to be seen breaking solar panels and spewing black smoke from their gigantic trucks. It’s all performative hatred.
Well, and it doesn’t help when, for example, the US government administered STDs under the guise of vaccines (see Tuskegee study). Let’s not forget that bullshit and how that echoes through generations…who we put in our government fuckin matters!