By Jon
Rappoport
The official talking heads in the
vaccine wars are using race and class to attack people who doubt the safety and
efficacy of vaccines.
Before people lost track of a subject
called logic, the fallacy called ad hominem was widely understood: ignore the
substance of an argument; simply attack the person making the argument.
Barbara Loe Fisher leads a private non-profit
US organization called the National Vaccine Information Center. She has worked
for decades to bring truth to the issue of vaccines. Recently, she gave a talk
titled, "Class and Race Profiling in the Vaccine Culture War." Here
are vital excerpts:
"The
Vaccine Culture War is heating up. Ground zero is America, Europe and other
economically developed countries, where the pharmaceutical industrial complex
is raising an iron fist to protect multi-billion dollar profits by
disempowering the people."
"In America, professors and
doctors in academia and government are profiling parents by class and race to
shame and discredit those challenging vaccine orthodoxy. Elite members of the
highest paid professions in our society are using academic journals and
mainstream media to openly preach fear, hate, prejudice and discrimination
against people who disagree with them about vaccination."
"'When it comes to vaccines, rich
parents get away with child neglect,' the headline in the Washington
Post proclaimed on May 10, 2017..."
"That 'punish the mothers' Op Ed was preceded by a May 8 Boston Herald editorial revealing just how far the persecution of people advocating for vaccine safety and informed consent has gone. The Boston Herald editorial staff called for the execution of individuals who exercise free speech about vaccine risks and failures. As in, it should be 'a hanging offense' to inform parents (especially to inform parents in 'immigrant communities') that vaccines carry an unpredictable risk of injury or death and often fail to work as advertised."
"In
2011, Greg Poland, a
University of Minnesota professor of medicine and vaccine developer at Mayo
Clinic, profiled parents concerned about vaccine risks in the New
England Journal of Medicine. He said, 'Anti-vaccinationists tend toward
complete distrust of government and manufacturers, conspiratorial thinking,
denialism, low cognitive complexity in thinking patterns, reasoning flaws, and
a habit of substituting anecdotes for data.' Then he used a death image to
invoke a thinly veiled threat. He asked, 'What can we do to hasten the funeral
of anti-vaccination campaigns?'"
"Trash
talk has become the weapon of choice for a select group of professors and
doctors using academic journals and mainstream media to humiliate and bully
people who disagree with them about the science, policy, law and ethics of
vaccination. In the 21st century, it has been going on in earnest since about
2004 when Centers for Disease Control (CDC) officials kicked off the Vaccine
Culture War by asking this question in the Journal of Pediatrics:
'Children Who Have Received No Vaccines: Who Are They and Where Do They
Live?'"
"The
CDC study authors played with the words 'under vaccinated' and 'unvaccinated'
so mothers could be profiled by class and race. They said:"
"'Under
vaccinated children tend to be black, to have a younger mother who was not married
and did not have a college degree, to live in a household near the poverty
level, and to live in a central city. Unvaccinated children tended to be white,
to have a mother who was married and had a college degree, to live in a
household with an annual income exceeding $75,000 and to have parents who
expressed concerns regarding the safety of vaccines and indicated that medical
doctors have little influence over vaccination decisions for their
children.'"
"When
doctors with big titles in government and academia put a target on the backs of
parents and doctors opposing inhumane one-size-fits-all public health policies
and laws, it gives a green light for legislators to do the same thing. In 2012, California pediatrician
politician Richard Pan lobbied to eliminate the personal belief vaccine
exemption for children to attend school. He said that, 'In private schools,
these are people who have money, who are upper middle-class, and they are going
on the Internet and seeing information and misinformation.'"
"In
2013, the flames of prejudice were fanned by an online publication profiling
parents in a San Francisco community and labeling them 'vaccine deniers.' The
parents were described as 'wealthy, educated, liberal leaning' and often
working in 'technology, law and other white collar professions that demand
critical thinking skills,' who put their children at risk by feeding them
non-GMO organic food, taking them to holistic doctors, and paying $20,000 a year
to send them to private schools where self-reliance, independence and critical
thinking are taught."
"So, by 2015, the narrative about
parents being stupid and crazy for questioning the safety of vaccines had
morphed into one profiling parents by class and race. The New York
Times had no problem running the headline, 'Rich, White and Refusing
Vaccinations.'"
It's not
what you think, what you know, what your independent research has
uncovered---no, no. It's all about your profile. Your class and race profile is
the only relevant factor.
What you
know is merely a bogus affectation based on your class and race status.
Welcome
to the ad hominem universe.
"We are official science. Everything
we assert is true. Why? Because we are the class of the all-knowing. Anyone who
doubts us is from a sub-class of morons. We can break down that sub-class by race and economic status.
Then we can use those profiles to shame you into agreeing with what we
say..."
It goes further
than this, straight into the heart of actual racism:
"You're
black and poor and you doubt the safety and efficacy of vaccines? You obtained
those ideas from people who are trying to harm you and your children. You see,
you're not capable of looking at the evidence and the facts yourselves. You're eternal victims. You don't
have minds of your own."
Yes,
that's where all this "science" leads.
On the
other hand, if you're "rich and white," and believe that vaccines are
dangerous, you're simply acting out an elitist desire to separate yourselves
from the bulk of humanity who understands the necessity of vaccination.
According
to this perverse "analysis," the only people who truly understand the
facts are the princes of vaccination, the talking heads who front for the
pharmaceutical giants.
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