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>The far right is using anti-vaxx
>sentiment to radicalize Republicans
>Jan 25
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>The "Defeat the Mandates" rally on
>Sunday in Washington D.C. was not
>exactly the blockbuster event, size-
>wise, organizers had hoped to turn
>out. The event's planners had
>predicted 20,000 people, but more
>reasonable estimates suggested it
>was fewer than half that who
>actually showed. But despite the
>paltry turnout, the event was deeply
>troubling to experts who monitor the
>far-right.
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>Disgustingly, one of the main speakers
>was Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the son of
>the Democratic scion who was
>assassinated in 1968. Kennedy has
>spent the past few years becoming an
>increasingly unhinged anti-vaccine
>activist � but his presence on Sunday
>was even more alarming considering
>the role that the Kennedy family
>plays in the imaginations of the
>QAnon cult.
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>Many QAnoners believe that JFK and
>JFK Jr. � Kennedy's deceased uncle
>and first cousin, respectively � are
>still alive and secretly supporting
>Donald Trump. Simply by showing up,
>Kennedy validated these kinds of
>fringe beliefs. The situation got
>much worse when he actually spoke
>and told the crowd that anti-vaxxers
>have it worse than Jews did during
>the Holocaust.
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>"Even in Hitler Germany, you could,
>you could cross the Alps into
>Switzerland. You could hide in an
>attic, like Anne Frank did," Kennedy
>said. "I visited, in 1962, East
>Germany with my father and met people
>who had climbed the wall and escaped,
>so it was possible. Many died, true,
>but it was possible."
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>Kennedy's analogy is incoherent for
>obvious reasons � does he think East
>Germany was a Nazi state or not know
>that Frank died at the Bergen-Belsen
>concentration camp?
>https://www.salon.com/2022/01/24/insurrection-by-other-means-the-far-rig
>ht-is-using-anti-vaxx-sentiment-to-radicalize/
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