It also is one of the conspiracy theories that cross party lines.
The youtuber/failed mythbuster Allen Pan did a video where he made a “vaccine gun” that turned into him being terrified of angering his black camera woman and it turning into a heartfelt video where they both go to “the rich white people CVS” to get their vaccines.
And ignoring that he is a piece of shit with borderline minstrel tendencies, it also kind of summed up a lot of what we saw in 2020/2021. We have a fucking miracle cure that can fix society! A bunch of idiots refuse to get vaccinated. So people decide to clown on them.
Oh shit! We are all racist assholes and the real villains because of the Tuskegee Experiment over 50 years ago! Okay, SOME people have very valid reasons for not getting vaccinated but only them. Fuck, Willowbrook back in the 60s? And Guatemala in the 40s?
Okay… people are allowed to not want to get vaccinated, I guess? And fuck anyone who is immunocompromised or otherwise at risk because they are also racists for caring about living?
And it also “helps” that it plays into the focused effort to vilify academics that we have seen, fairly globally, since the mid-late 20th century.
And, don’t get me wrong, absolutely nobody deserves to be in an unethical human experimentation. But… if people actually research the history of medicine they would never want to let any doctor even look at them. Except… that isn’t the case. Because, yeah, some REAL fucking evil happened and so has a lot of gross incompetence. Medicine learns from that and actually has philosophical discussions so that even borderline stuff never happens again.
It also is one of the conspiracy theories that cross party lines.
The youtuber/failed mythbuster Allen Pan did a video where he made a “vaccine gun” that turned into him being terrified of angering his black camera woman and it turning into a heartfelt video where they both go to “the rich white people CVS” to get their vaccines.
And ignoring that he is a piece of shit with borderline minstrel tendencies, it also kind of summed up a lot of what we saw in 2020/2021. We have a fucking miracle cure that can fix society! A bunch of idiots refuse to get vaccinated. So people decide to clown on them.
Oh shit! We are all racist assholes and the real villains because of the Tuskegee Experiment over 50 years ago! Okay, SOME people have very valid reasons for not getting vaccinated but only them. Fuck, Willowbrook back in the 60s? And Guatemala in the 40s?
Okay… people are allowed to not want to get vaccinated, I guess? And fuck anyone who is immunocompromised or otherwise at risk because they are also racists for caring about living?
And it also “helps” that it plays into the focused effort to vilify academics that we have seen, fairly globally, since the mid-late 20th century.
And, don’t get me wrong, absolutely nobody deserves to be in an unethical human experimentation. But… if people actually research the history of medicine they would never want to let any doctor even look at them. Except… that isn’t the case. Because, yeah, some REAL fucking evil happened and so has a lot of gross incompetence. Medicine learns from that and actually has philosophical discussions so that even borderline stuff never happens again.