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Like I said maybe a year ago, I do think it's genuinely surprising that HN, given its general right-libertarian stance, has gone more or less full anti-vaxxer w
by TillE 5y ago
Like I said maybe a year ago, I do think it's genuinely surprising that HN, given its general right-libertarian stance, has gone more or less full anti-vaxxer with COVID-19. It's just not a rational position, and there are no personal political biases which should logically lead there.
- JSavageOne 5y agoQuestioning vaccine mandates and the alleged efficacy of rushed out vaccines does not in any way equate to being an anti-vaxxer. What would be more irrational would be the blind questioning of authorities without a particularly convincing track record.
- dekhn 5y agoIt's an interesting phenomenon that I've been watching over the past few years. I have my own opinions about what's going on, but I would say that I think generally, the "what positions do people in a political clique take" has changed tremendously over the past few years. In the old days, the NY Times would have simply published an oped by William Buckley that would sum up the position of pro-freedom argument of the mainstream republican elite. and then the world would move on. Except that buckley wouldn't have done that, he would have been for mandates. Context: during the HIV/AIDS crises, Buckley proposed tattooing a big red A on the ass of every gay person with AIDS: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/07/16/specials/buckley-aids.html https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/07/16/s...