Race/class-baiting attacks against vaccine doubters
By Jon Rappoport
The official talking heads in the vaccine wars are using race
and class to attack people who doubt the safety and efficacy of
vaccines.
Before people lost track of a subject called logic, the
fallacy called ad hominem was widely understood: ignore the substance of
an argument; simply attack the person making the argument.
Barbara Loe Fisher leads a private non-profit US organization
called the National Vaccine Information Center. She has worked for
decades to bring truth to the issue of vaccines. Recently, she gave a
talk titled, "Class and Race Profiling in the Vaccine Culture War." Here
are vital excerpts:
"The Vaccine Culture War is heating up. Ground zero is
America, Europe and other economically developed countries, where the
pharmaceutical industrial complex is raising an iron fist to protect
multi-billion dollar profits by disempowering the people."
"In America, professors and doctors in academia and
government are profiling parents by class and race to shame and
discredit those challenging vaccine orthodoxy. Elite members of the
highest paid professions in our society are using academic journals and
mainstream media to openly preach fear, hate, prejudice and
discrimination against people who disagree with them about vaccination."
"'When it comes to vaccines, rich parents get away with child neglect,' the headline in the Washington Post proclaimed on May 10, 2017..."
"That 'punish the mothers' Op Ed was preceded by a May 8 Boston Herald editorial revealing just how far the persecution of people advocating for vaccine safety and informed consent has gone. The Boston Herald
editorial staff called for the execution of individuals who exercise
free speech about vaccine risks and failures. As in, it should be 'a
hanging offense' to inform parents (especially to inform parents in
'immigrant communities') that vaccines carry an unpredictable risk of
injury or death and often fail to work as advertised."
"In 2011, Greg Poland, a University of Minnesota professor of
medicine and vaccine developer at Mayo Clinic, profiled parents
concerned about vaccine risks in the New England Journal of Medicine.
He said, 'Antivaccinationists tend toward complete distrust of
government and manufacturers, conspiratorial thinking, denialism, low
cognitive complexity in thinking patterns, reasoning flaws, and a habit
of substituting anecdotes for data.' Then he used a death image to
invoke a thinly veiled threat. He asked, 'What can we do to hasten the
funeral of antivaccination campaigns?'"
"Trash talk has become the weapon of choice for a select
group of professors and doctors using academic journals and mainstream
media to humiliate and bully people who disagree with them about the
science, policy, law and ethics of vaccination. In the 21st century, it
has been going on in earnest since about 2004 when Centers for Disease
Control (CDC) officials kicked off the Vaccine Culture War by asking
this question in the Journal of Pediatrics: 'Children Who Have Received No Vaccines: Who Are They and Where Do They Live?'"
"The CDC study authors played with the words
'undervaccinated' and 'unvaccinated' so mothers could be profiled by
class and race. They said:"
"'Undervaccinated children tend to be black, to have a
younger mother who was not married and did not have a college degree, to
live in a household near the poverty level, and to live in a central
city. Unvaccinated children tended to be white, to have a mother who was
married and had a college degree, to live in a household with an annual
income exceeding $75,000 and to have parents who expressed concerns
regarding the safety of vaccines and indicated that medical doctors have
little influence over vaccination decisions for their children.'"
"When doctors with big titles in government and academia put a
target on the backs of parents and doctors opposing inhumane
one-size-fits-all public health policies and laws, it gives a green
light for legislators to do the same thing. In 2012, California
pediatrician politician Richard Pan lobbied to eliminate the personal
belief vaccine exemption for children to attend school. He told Associated Press
that, 'In private schools, these are people who have money, who are
upper middle-class, and they are going on the Internet and seeing
information and misinformation.'"
"In 2013, the flames of prejudice were fanned by an online
publication profiling parents in a San Francisco community and labeling
them 'vaccine deniers.' The parents were described as 'wealthy,
educated, liberal leaning' and often working in 'technology, law and
other white collar professions that demand critical thinking skills,'
who put their children at risk by feeding them non-GMO organic food,
taking them to holistic doctors, and paying $20,000 a year to send them
to private schools where self-reliance, independence and critical
thinking are taught."
"So, by 2015, the narrative about parents being stupid and
crazy for questioning the safety of vaccines had morphed into one
profiling parents by class and race. The New York Times had no problem running the headline, 'Rich, White and Refusing Vaccinations.'"
---end of excerpt---
Getting the message?
It's not what you think, what you know, what your independent
research has uncovered---no, no. It's all about your profile. Your
class and race profile is the only relevant factor.
What you know is merely a bogus affectation based on your class and race status.
Welcome to the ad hominem universe.
"We are official science. Everything we assert is true. Why?
Because we are the class of the all-knowing. Anyone who doubts us is
from a sub-class of morons. We can break down that sub-class by race and
economic status. Then we can use those profiles to shame you into
agreeing with what we say..."
It goes further than this, straight into the heart of actual racism:
"You're black and poor and you doubt the safety and efficacy
of vaccines? You obtained those ideas from people who are trying to harm
you and your children. You see, you're not capable of looking at the
evidence and the facts yourselves. You're eternal victims. You don't
have minds of your own."
Yes, that's where all this "science" leads.
On the other hand, if you're "rich and white," and believe
that vaccines are dangerous, you're simply acting out an elitist desire
to separate yourselves from the bulk of humanity who understands the
necessity of vaccination.
According to this perverse "analysis," the only people who
truly understand the facts are the princes of vaccination, the talking
heads who front for the pharmaceutical giants.
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