BLM NY says vaccine mandates/passports are racist

[Cultellus]

Gorilla

[Alf'Omega]

You and the Atlantic moron jump at every chance to defend him. Your obsession with Icarus is noted. This typically happens when butthurt people hold grudges for getting owned.

[ajax18]

The problem is that not very well educated or informed black people can refer to real cases of black people being grossly mistreated in medical experiments such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study,

How long ago did that happen? How long will this make refusing vaccinations an acceptable excuse in your view?

So, while black people would, like white people, be better off getting vaccinated (please do get vaccinated, if you are a black person reading this!), their reasons for feeling suspicious are at the least not entirely crazy crazy.

Do unvaccinated black people and illegal immigrants have blood on their hands for COVID deaths just as unvaccinated white people do in your opinion?

[Cultellus]

Gorilla

[ajax18]

Twitter Deletes Embarrassing Video of Ibram X. Kendi Refusing to Say Vaccine Mandates Are Racist

Twitter reportedly locked the official account of a nonpartisan non-profit after it shared a video of “antiracist” millionaire Ibram X. Kendi embarrassing himself by attempting to wriggle his way around a question on racist vaccine mandates.

Mythinformed is a Milwaukee-based nonprofit that promotes critical thinking and viewpoint diversity, running a regular conference that hosts speakers from a variety of fields and ideological persuasions.

At a recent speaking event featuring Kendi, a member of the nonprofit asked the academic activist if he believed vaccine mandates were racist.

Kendi believes in equality of outcomes. He has stated that disparate racial outcomes are evidence of racist policies, even calling for the principle to be enshrined in the constitution.

With black Americans having much lower vaccination rates than other racial groups, according to Kendi’s logic, vaccine mandates cutting the unvaccinated off from certain venues and services would be evidence of racist policy.

A member of Mythinformed put this question to Kendi, who responded with the false claim that “people of color” have limited access to the vaccine. Even if this were true, it would not make the impact of vaccine mandates any less disparate.

According to James Lindsay, a leading critic of Kendi and of critical race theory, when the official Mythinformed account tweeted the video of their exchange with Kendi, it resulted in Twitter locking the account and deleting the post (the URL for the tweet now displays the message “This tweet violated the Twitter rules”) .

“This is the tweet that got @MythinformedMKE locked out of Twitter, apparently for violating the rules on sharing private videos,” said Lindsay. “It was their own video of an event that didn’t ban recording.”

Breitbart News reached out to Twitter for comment on the matter yesterday. Thus far, Twitter has not offered an explanation for the incident.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/09/ ... m-x-kendi/

[Doctor Steuss]

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Mythinformed is a Milwaukee-based nonprofit that promotes critical thinking and viewpoint diversity,[...]

Lol. Is this what they are now trying to brand themselves as?

[Chap]

Do unvaccinated black people and illegal immigrants have blood on their hands for COVID deaths just as unvaccinated white people do in your opinion?

Everybody who refuses (for no scientifically valid reason) to get vaccinated when they are offered the opportunity bears some of the responsibility for the increased risk of infection and possible serious illness or death that they inflict on their fellow citizens in consequence of that refusal.

Of course the degree of responsibility incurred by a given individual will depend in part on the extent to which the person involved had both opportunity and ability to come to an accurate understanding of the likely outcomes, for others as well as themselves, of the decision they make.

[Cultellus]

Gorilla

[Res Ipsa]

I looked up their speakers list for their most recent event. Mostly hard right. Maybe a moderate liberal or two. Their representation of who they are is pretty disingenuous.

Only Twitter knows why action was taken against their account.

Here’s the weird thing to me. Both Breitman and Ajax seems surprised that black folks can have different opinions on an issue. Why do they find any significance in that? Us white people disagree about stuff all the time.

Here’s what I learned from looking at the stats. First, the quality of data on the race of vaccinated people is spotty and varies from location to location. The CDC publishes this data, but only can identify race for about 60% of vaccinated people. So, in fact, these relatively small differences in percentages don’t tell us much.

Breitman lied about the percentage of black folks in New York who are unvaccinated. Inexcusable.

Neither the NY BLM leader nor Kendi knows for sure what the cause of the remaining vaccine hesitancy among black folks is. I’d lay odds that it’s different for different individuals. The BLM leader appears to be evangelical, so he has an issue about religious objections.

So, Ajax, why do you think these two stories are worth discussing? What do you think they show?

[jlamothe]

Food for thought:

If the vaccines were dangerous, it would've been the poor to get them first, not the rich.