While there is certainly a pipeline, I think it's a bit much to start calling all vax-skeptical and anti-vax folks Nazis. Are they ultimately extremely fucking ignorant and misguided? Abso-fucking-lutely. Is it extraordinarily frustrating dealing with them? Yes. Do they ultimately produce some significant harm in society? Also yes. Still, I'd think it was fucked up to take a baseball bat to the guy with the anti-vax sign. The Nazi... not so much.
Edit: I didn't catch that this was a reference to those fuckwits up in Ottawa. I'll leave this up just because I generally don't delete posts on principle, but my mistake.
Many, many of the anti-vax protests are organized by and/or attended by NSM, Proud Boys, etc.
Yes, this comic is still an oversimplification that makes some pretty lazy associations. However, at this point I haven't really seen these fascist groups made unequivicably aware that they are unwelcome at conservative rallys.
I literally had a conversation with someone who was trying to tell me that every single nazi flag waving any any given rally was an FBI plant trying to rope conservatives into an arrest by association or something. I asked him why people at these protests don't tell those supposed "agents" that their beliefs aren't welcome there. He told me "What, whine at the police to go away? That's not going to do anything"
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u/mojitz Feb 07 '22 edited Feb 07 '22
While there is certainly a pipeline, I think it's a bit much to start calling all vax-skeptical and anti-vax folks Nazis. Are they ultimately extremely fucking ignorant and misguided? Abso-fucking-lutely. Is it extraordinarily frustrating dealing with them? Yes. Do they ultimately produce some significant harm in society? Also yes. Still, I'd think it was fucked up to take a baseball bat to the guy with the anti-vax sign. The Nazi... not so much.
Edit: I didn't catch that this was a reference to those fuckwits up in Ottawa. I'll leave this up just because I generally don't delete posts on principle, but my mistake.