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Maureen McDonnell's avatar

When anyone refers to me using the derogatory term “anti-vaxxer”, (even though as a pediatric nurse for 40 years- it’s accurate) my new more empowering title to counteract their obvious ignorance, is to say

“No– I’m a “Vaccine Injury Specialist”

First, it throws people off guard because it turns the tables on them. It’s indicative of someone who knows the science, knows injuries are real & it tends to provoke a perplexed facial expression. It’s a good start! Try it!!!

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Charles Eisenstein's avatar

Interesting hypothesis. Here is an alternative (or complementary) one that is no less disturbing. We start with a well-oiled propaganda machine, created to sell war, neoliberalism, vaccines, etc. to the public. It can also be recruited by social hysteria. The mob adopts certain "trans-friendly" opinions and slogans as markers of virtue, which really means, signifiers of in-group inclusion. One gains power by condemning the heretics. Everyone is afraid the mob will turn on them, so they outdo each other in demonstrations of orthodoxy. No one needs to send them a memo to feature articles on anti-trans oppression or the sins of JK Rowling, just as no one needed to tell everyone in my 4th grade class to ostracize Kent and say nasty things about how he was weird and had cooties. Anyone who expressed sympathy from him got the same treatment he did. Even silence was suspicious. To stay safe, you had to join in. So, all that has to happen is that somewhere along the line, trans advocacy became the new crusade of justice, the great civil rights movement of our time (as Biden put it), and everyone scurries to identify themselves as a brave fighter against bigotry and not a privileged oppressor. It has all the appearance of being expertly planned and coordinated, but these things tend to coordinate themselves. That's how it was in 4th grade anyway. Of course, what you say may be going on as well. Or, perhaps, it is merely that Big Pharma recognizes it is to their advantage, so they egg it on.

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