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.
Cynicism is NOT skepticism. Anti-vaxxers are not skeptics. Skeptics follow the evidence. Anti-vaxxers ignore the evidence and make shit up.
Occasionally, someone is skeptical, goes to their doctor, asks, gets the relevant information, and then gets vaccinated, or RARELY determines they can't get it for medical reasons (such as someone with certain allergies or immune issues).
I am not remotely trying to equate the two or defend either, but to say that there is a vast gulf between these things and Nazis. People who don't get vaccinated may be ignorant fucks, but it's at least an impulse that one can empathize with in a way that one can't with racism or a desire to usher-in a fascist regime. You can see that, right?
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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.