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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,026 posts)
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 04:38 PM Feb 2021

They're Baaack: Anti-Vaxxers Who Shut Down Dodger Stadium Plot Creepy Sequel

The video is everywhere in the comments sections of anti-vaccination Facebook pages. In it, a prominent vaccine opponent makes false claims about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines.

Then he goes on to tell another dangerous lie.

“Legally,” he says, “all those people giving vaccinations are war criminals. I’ll repeat that. Legally, all those people giving vaccinations are war criminals.”

This claim—which cites a bogus legal theory based on Nazi war crime trials—is not true. That hasn’t stopped conspiracy theorists from spamming it in Facebook comments and uploading it across the internet, where individual clips have received more than 100,000 views. Meanwhile, conspiracy theorists are planning new in-person demonstrations outside vaccination sites. One, a sequel to a now-notorious event that shut down one of the largest such sites in America at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, is being organized by a vaccination opponent who himself accuses health-care workers of war crimes, The Daily Beast has learned.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/anti-vaxxers-plot-l-protest-095850964.html

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They're Baaack: Anti-Vaxxers Who Shut Down Dodger Stadium Plot Creepy Sequel (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2021 OP
I don't think you can have a "war criminal" without coti Feb 2021 #1
Anytime someone includes "I repeat:" in their putrid little screeds, Aristus Feb 2021 #2
Find these liars and sue them for defamation, harrassment, etc. dutch777 Feb 2021 #3
they'll be lucky not to get their asses kicked... dhill926 Feb 2021 #4

coti

(4,612 posts)
1. I don't think you can have a "war criminal" without
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 04:42 PM
Feb 2021

the "war" part.

On the other hand, I think it's much easier to characterize interfering with thousands of people attempting to get vaccinated as a crime against humanity than it is the other way around.

Aristus

(66,386 posts)
2. Anytime someone includes "I repeat:" in their putrid little screeds,
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 04:42 PM
Feb 2021

you just know they're lying through their teeth…

dutch777

(3,023 posts)
3. Find these liars and sue them for defamation, harrassment, etc.
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 04:47 PM
Feb 2021

You don't get to say someone is a war criminal when it is not true and get a pass on that level of invective as "free speech". Until there are serious and costly consequences for these conspiracy proponents, and maybe the platforms they post on, this unhealthy behavior will only continue and grow.

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