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I don't think I'd describe the black people who don't get vaccinated as "anti-vax". Black people have a well earned historical distrust of the medical community
by AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
I don't think I'd describe the black people who don't get vaccinated as "anti-vax". Black people have a well earned historical distrust of the medical community that's pretty much completely unrelated to the zeitgeist of the "anti-vax" movement.
- School-Cotton 5y agoAnti-vax is anti-vax regardless of how justified you may think the reasons are. Anyway, if it’s justifiable to believe that the medical community is behaving untrustworthily towards black people, wouldn’t that be evidence that they’re unethical in general, and reason enough for anyone, black or not, not to get the vaccine?
- zepto 5y agoI don’t see how they are unrelated at all. It sounds like you are saying they just don’t ‘feel’ like the same thing, but I see no reason for that other than racism.
- Levitz 5y agoGoing down that line of thinking, I think every citizen out there can have legitimate distrust of their government.
- gruez 5y ago>Black people have a well earned historical distrust of the medical community that's pretty much completely unrelated to the zeitgeist of the "anti-vax" movement. As opposed to white people? Why does it matter whether you mistrust the US government because of Tuskegee Syphilis Study, or because of MKULTRA?
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoIt's really weird how people responding to me keep talking about distrust in the US government, when I was talking about distrust in the medical community.
- zepto 5y agoPresumably you know that significant parts of the historical “well earned distrust” that black people have of the medical community involve the government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study So does the current drive for vaccination. It’s weird that you don’t see the connection.