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Pre-Trump, anti-vaxxers were notorious left-wing granola types. Lots of anti-vaxxers were white liberals living in Marin and NorCal and sending their children t
by freediddy 1mo ago
Pre-Trump, anti-vaxxers were notorious left-wing granola types. Lots of anti-vaxxers were white liberals living in Marin and NorCal and sending their children to private schools like Waldorf.
Only after Trump did people start lumping them in with right wing.
- wredcoll 1mo agoTrump gave them official government support and promoted them.
- riffraff 1mo ago> Pre-Trump, anti-vaxxers were notorious left-wing granola types so, exactly RFK's type :)
- secretsatan 1mo agoWell that’s just not true, anti vax has always been a theme of the far right, infowars and i’m sure others have a long history of it. The left wing libs types are far more recent, and i would lump them more in with the wellness brigade.
- freediddy 1mo agoYou are completely wrong. It's always been a far left concept until COVID. This is from Mother Jones, a very liberal web site. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/06/the-anti-vax-movements-radical-shift-from-crunchy-granola-purists-to-far-right-crusaders/ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/06/the-anti-vax-mo...
- secretsatan 1mo agoHere’s an earlier article from another leftist site https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/apr/25/mmr-scare-analysis https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/apr/25/mmr-scare-an...