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> Fauci as the saviour in Stockholme Syndrome... Not a downvoter (to your comment, I rarely vote) but does anybody pro-mask/pro-vaccine/pro-lockdown actually c
by user_7832 5y ago
> Fauci as the saviour in Stockholme Syndrome...
Not a downvoter (to your comment, I rarely vote) but does anybody pro-mask/pro-vaccine/pro-lockdown actually consider him a saviour? All I see (as a non American) is folks on the right hating him being considered a saviour... but I don't find a single post glorifying him even on left-leaning reddit.
- xapata 5y agoNo, the language of "savior" tends to come from religious extremists.
- loceng 5y agoIt's just the psychological term used as part of explaining Stockholm Syndrome behaviour. It doesn't mean it's conscious behave or a conscious belief.
- dekhn 5y agoI'm a democrat who finds fauci completely uninteresting. He's a skillful bureaucrat with health experience but not an effective communicator. I don't think that listening to him and doing exactly what he suggests is the wisest course of action, but it's certainly not the least wise.
- ryandrake 5y agoThe only people who care about Fauci, or even say his name, are the people who need an effigy to burn and a boogeyman to pin all their fears and conspiracies on. To most Americans, he is a semi-remarkable bureaucrat who had a couple of weeks time on TV and managed to get a tiny bit of name recognition out of it. To the right, he's the central puppet master, solely holding the strings of a shadowy global conspiracy by the Deep State to use 5G and vaccines to mind control the world into the New World Order. Look at their forums, he's somehow become this terrifying Bond Villain to these guys. It used to be Hillary, now it's Fauci. They need an evil mastermind to focus on.
- pstuart 5y agoPro-vax, pro-science here. I respect him for trying to help our society in dealing with infectious disease but do not worship him (that's saved only for David Bowie). My take on anti-vaxxers is that they have a "religious" relationship to their belief system and therefor project their personal assumptions onto others.
- tomcam 5y agoI’m deeply troubled that Bowie worshipped him
- pstuart 5y agoHa. No, that's coming from me. He was a Rock God after all.
- loceng 5y agoAnd you're so certain, perhaps even arrogant even, that you're belief in "science" isn't a "religious" ideological relationship?
- brewdad 5y agoYou're on a message board dedicated to tech and you don't believe in the scientific method? GTFO.
- pstuart 5y agoThanks for having my back. I'd buy you a beer if you were near.
- WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
- pstuart 5y agoThe word "belief" gets mangled intentionally in the case above. "Belief" as in "understand" versus "hold to be true regardless or questioning" are very different things. I'm humble enough to know that I don't know everything and can be wrong. And if I'm wrong I'm willing to learn anew. For example, I was raised on the concept that dietary fat was bad (margarine was healthier than butter) and we now know this is not the case. I'm not a trained immunologist like you, so I can only work with the basic knowledge that the immune system "learns" the chemical fingerprint of attackers and that vaccines mimic that to train the immune system. If I'm wrong I'd love to learn what is correct. Can you say the same for yourself? Is the arrogance you sense coming from you?
- TMWNN 5y ago>Not a downvoter (to your comment, I rarely vote) but does anybody pro-mask/pro-vaccine/pro-lockdown actually consider him a saviour? Fauci devotional candles are available for sale (<https://www.bing.com/search?q=fauci+devotional+candle https://www.bing.com/search?q=fauci+devotional+candle>). One might laugh and say that only weirdos might buy them ... But said weirdos include Fauci himself (<https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/twitter-notices-something-strange-faucis-home-bizarre-fauci-candles-spotted-background https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/twitter-notices-something...>).