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It is now, but before the Republicans made being anti-vax a part of their identity politics, anti-vax was a fringe belief not necessarily aligned to a specific
by krapp 2y ago
It is now, but before the Republicans made being anti-vax a part of their identity politics, anti-vax was a fringe belief not necessarily aligned to a specific political polarity (the "vaccines cause autism" set) generally associated with alternative medicine/faith healing, etc and libertarianism (objecting to being forced to take vaccines on principle.)
Of course mistrust of vaccinations have been prevalent in non-white populations due to things like the Tuskeegee syphilis program and other instances of the US performing medical experiments on the populace.
- scarface_74 2y agoVery few Black Americans even know about the Tuskegee syphilis program these days and it rarely comes up (I’m Black by the way). The reason that uptake in the COVID vaccine wasn’t lower at first was because like everything else, health care is worse in the Black community. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9974364/#:~:text=By%20the%20end%20of%20April,coverage%20(78%2D81%25) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9974364/#:~:text=By....
- scarface_74 2y agoIt’s been part of the Republican Party talking points since way before 2020. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna301646 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna301646 Rand Paul was speaker of the House at the time.