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“[snip] because reddit said [snip]” Many antivaxxers are uneducated people of color. Your comments are, perhaps unwittingly, quite racist.
by newbamboo 5y ago
“[snip] because reddit said [snip]”
Many antivaxxers are uneducated people of color. Your comments are, perhaps unwittingly, quite racist.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoI'm not interested in getting put into the HN penalty box arguing data with a skeptic/conspiracy theorist/antivaxxer. I provided data supporting my thesis around belief systems and their rigidity. Maintain whatever position you choose.
- newbamboo 5y agoI’m not trying to put you into a penalty box just trying to say that it’s easy to make assumptions about “those other people” who aren’t getting vaxxed, which are often oversimplified assumptions that are wrong. Many uneducated people are not to blame for their lack of education. Personally, since you want to make ad hominem allusions to my mindset, I will clarify that I’m not anti-vaxx. I took the vaxx despite being very low risk. I believed in the goal of herd immunity. And I was labeled a conspiracy theorist early on for saying a pandemic was coming and that there was likely undetected spread, despite WHO insistence to the contrary. I was labeled a conspiracy theorist for saying masks might be helpful when the cdc said otherwise. When I said a lab leak was plausible I was called a conspiracy theorist. At this point I would be embarrassed to be anything but.