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I think if we’re going to talk about how his anti-vaxxing politics with respect to Tuskegee, it would be useful to understand that black distrust towards medicine and vaccines is actually valid given centuries of ongoing scientific racism. https://twitter.com/EricMGarcia/status/1059212734615699456
Black anti-vaxxing is actually steeped in historical trauma; white anti-vaxxing—the mainstream politic we hear—generally comes from wealthier folks and their reliance on now debunked medical research.
It’s still unequivocslly inaccurate and ableist, and in another capacity it isn’t unfounded.
Attempting to make these kinds of equivalences across racial lines tends not to be useful or accurate
Attempting to make these kinds of equivalences across racial lines tends not to be useful or accurate
