• @WontonSoup
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    1051 year ago

    Why do the people you grow up loving for their music make you hate them for their politics. It’s literally free for them all to just stfu

        • @macarthur_park
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          461 year ago

          It’s weird how correlated these things are. Are all racists antivax? No. Are all antivaxers racist? No.

          But the overlap is so high that it’s unsurprising to learn someone who is one of these things is also the other.

          • Backspacecentury
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            171 year ago

            It’s largely because the latest right-wing dogwhistle is anti-vaxx. Before Covid and the Trump presidency, most anti-vaxxers were left wing hippies living in communes and taking colloidal silver for cancer treatment or having their naturopath distill the vibrations in their body water to treat sickness.

            • @macarthur_park
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              151 year ago

              I agree with everything here except that the right wing anti-vax nonsense began with trump and Covid. That definitely accelerated things, but there was a strong anti-vax sentiment in the Republican Party even before trump.

              During the GOP primary debates for the 2016 election, every single candidate cast doubt on the standard childhood vaccine regimen. The candidate who came closest to supporting vaccinating children was Rand Paul. And even though he definitely knows better, he argues vaccines should be given at a slower rate to “spread out” the effects.

              I think the aversion to vaccines comes from the republican mistrust of science and expertise in general. This “know nothing”ism has been growing for a while - see Sarah Palin in the 2012 election.

            • @LetMeEatCake
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              61 year ago

              My recollection is that the shift started pre-covid. Anti-vaxxers were originally predominantly left leaning but I think it hit the 50/50 range somewhere around 2012-2014. At least in the US. Trump shifted it even more, then covid+Trump just completely inverted where it had been a generation prior.

              • @wsweg
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                61 year ago

                The “vaccines cause autism” crowd are what comes to my mind.

            • FuglyDuck
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              11 year ago

              It’s not like the right wingers didn’t have their nut jobs with compounds believing vaccines and such were government over reach.

              They didn’t call them “communes” though. And they maybe had a shocking about of guns and shit

          • @Rhoeri
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            51 year ago

            The Venn diagram is damn near a perfect circle.

    • themeatbridge
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      111 year ago

      Clapton has been a racist piece of shit since the 70s. He also copied most of his signature style from blues musicians, along with a couple of songs he claimed to have written and later admitted he didn’t.

      He’s a garbage human who has a talent for the guitar.

    • keeb420
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      21 year ago

      if its not politics its theyre wife beaters or child molesters.

    • @islandofcaucasus
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      -11 year ago

      Because they’re still people just like the rest of us. Just because they have musical ability and money doesn’t mean they don’t get the same dopamine hits from social media that we all do.