01-31-2019, 02:30 AM
timg wrote:
[quote=rjmacs]
[quote=$tevie]
Perhaps this
I'm not implying any kind of uniformity among members of racial groups and these ideologies, and there are lots of exceptions to the rule. But there's still some resonance, for me.is what set us off.
Perhaps. I’m not sure why. I gave all you sensitive white folk plenty of space to disavow anti-vaxxerism as pertains to your whiteness.
If you’re all upset that i pointed out that white people are more likely to exempt themselves from systems because they feel like they’re entitled to do so, I don’t know what to tell you. That’s just part of having privilege.
I get fragile too sometimes. It’s part of being white.
I'd have the same issue with your comment no matter what racial group you "resonated" with. The issue is not race. it's stupidity. It's not limited to race.
Maybe in your mind you need to make everything about race to somehow relieve your guilt from being white?
I agree that the main reason that it's mostly wealthy white people opting out from vaccinations and endangering the general public is white-privilege. They do it in part because they feel that they can get away with it and in part because they truly believe that a Liberal Arts degree and a couple of Google searches make them smarter than MDs.
In many places, if a black family tries to opt out from vaccinations, they face extra bureaucratic challenges and a greater risk of child-services getting involved. And if you don't think that's a legit fear, you don't know what goes on in this age.
Even so, there are some black communities that have succumbed to the fear. There was a group of recent immigrants in Minnesota awhile back who bought the Wakefield BS about autism and were suckered by Internet hoaxes about vaccines being used to genetically target and poison black kids. It triggered the worst measles outbreak in the U.S. in decades. Nearly 50 kids in the ICU in the first month and the local government handing out hospital-masks to try and curb the epidemic.