"I thought that Black lives matter" | From slaves to human guinea pigs… Why the dark history of Black America justifies the vaccine hesitancy.

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[–]Orangutan[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

More: https://mobile.twitter.com/BillyPrempeh

See also: https://off-guardian.org/2021/08/27/dont-black-lives-matter-if-those-vaccines-take-them/

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Interesting to see the anti-vax being pushed to blacks.

The basis of the Trump anti-vax position, was likely the increased susceptibility of minorities to COVID. So spreading it as far as possible improved the Trump margin in closely fought electorates.

However, this started backfiring when supporting the GOP became more associated with death from COVID via vaccine hesitancy.

There's two things you could do about that. The first, trying to get conservatives to back out and get vaccinated doesn't work.

The other thing you could do is this. Let's see how it goes.