Anonymous #2 4w

These people will lose a child and still not learn, that’s how deeply brainwashed they are.

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Anonymous #2 4w

it's not about learning/knowledge, it's about belief. many learn about it and still reject it because they simply don't believe in it. their belief is rooted in faith (not strictly religious) not fact

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Anonymous #4 4w

A big part of it is lack of knowing how stuff works. You see it in geology, biology, and archaeology all the time. Granted there’s also the faith-based aspect but it bleeds into the lack of understanding. Bad actors often use oversimplification to push their propaganda. Creationists remove hundreds of millions of years of context from evolution and boil it down to “we went from bacteria to people?” to discredit evolution.

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Anonymous #4 4w

In 2019-2020 antivaxxers loved the claim that vaccines had mercury because it fearmongered and most people don’t really know that ethylmercury (the one in vaccines) is safe while methylmercury is dangerous. The faith ones are also horrifying too tbh. As someone raised Catholic, it BAFFLES me that some Christian sects reject modern medicine in favor of faith. To let your child fucking die rather than accept that modern medicine is a blessing from God meant to save your children is absurd.

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Anonymous #4 4w

The worst part is that the system protects all these people. We live in an age where peddlers of disinformation are rewarded with Netflix specials and the negligent that let their children die are protected by freedom of religion. Simply put, there’s idiots and then there’s the people who take advantage of idiots, the system allows it, and anti-intellectualism becomes mainstream.

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Anonymous #5 4w

mfw when Joe Biden started winning the 2020 primary because of South Carolina

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 4w

oh shit really?

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Anonymous #5 4w

Yeah, South Carolina was the first primary that Joe Biden won in 2020, and that’s when all the other centrists pulled out of the race to stop splitting Biden’s voter base. The reason for Biden’s win in SC was that Biden was associated with Obama, and Bernie Sanders’s biggest mistake in both 2016 and 2020 was his failure to make in-roads with Black voters. The SC Democratic Primary is often viewed as the barometer of the Black vote and I’ll be the first to admit Bernie’s failures in that regard.

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Anonymous #5 4w

I don’t think Bernie Sanders is racist or anything, that wasn’t the problem. I just think he’s been in lily-white Vermont for too long and forgot how to talk to Black people fr

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Anonymous #1 4w

knowledge is a factor but it is not the root of the issue. knowledge is itself like a vaccine; it does not cure, prevent or reverse the effects of misinfo but it does reduce the impact and spread two things to consider: 1) we cannot logic somebody out of a position they didn't logic themselves into 2) misinfo is not leading ppl to anti-vax beliefs; anti-vax beliefs are leading people to misinfo

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Anonymous #1 4w

i don't wanna like... argue... i just disagree that lack of knowledge is *the* issue. if it were the core problem anti-vax positions wouldn't have nearly as much sway on policy. the people who are simply misled are just as easily led towards truth. the issue is the people who never cared about the truth to begin with; the people with an agenda. it has nothing to do with being an "idiot" and everything to do with the selective rejection of truth which happens at every intellectual "level" and...

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Anonymous #1 4w

... for a number of reasons

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Anonymous #4 4w

It’s a bit of both. The 2019 Samoa outbreak is the perfect example. In 2018, two babies died after receiving an MMR vaccine because the vaccine powder was mixed with expired muscle relaxant instead of distilled water. This freak accident which should’ve never happened created distrust toward vaccines. RFK saw it as an opportunity to visit and preach his beliefs, amplifying public distrust, and when all was said and done he blamed those 83 people’s deaths on the vaccine itself

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