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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOne of the most brilliant interviewers of vaccine deniers I've ever seen!
Please dont get caught up in calling these people names. It diminishes the importance of her work. This young woman simply enters their world, speaks like they do, holds her views without shaming, makes them comfortable and hears why they feel the way they do. Listen to them. I know theyre wrong but listen. And she is amazing!
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HAB911
(8,876 posts)she is fearless
dalton99a
(81,432 posts)They're regurgitating the lies and propaganda on TV and Facebook
They don't even believe that Trump took the vaccine
Let them die.
nolabear
(41,959 posts)Mind you I am angry too, though I will never be in the let them die camp while I believe in helping people. But I specifically asked for a different perspective. Its not as though yours doesnt get air.
My visceral response to you when you attack underscores my point, though.
LakeArenal
(28,813 posts)God created me. When he says take it I will.
Geez the dumb. The dumb.
Please hold your breath until god speaks to you. . Thanks.
SergeStorms
(19,192 posts)but sorry, some of the people she interviewed are dumber than a bag full of hammers.
And they always get back to Donald Trump. Amazing, that.
maxsolomon
(33,284 posts)Lowest rates were "Trump voters more loyal to Trump than the Republican Party".
FoxNewsSucks
(10,429 posts)it's eye-opening, and I travel rural MO & KS a lot. I'm still amazed, and disgusted, by the small-mindedness. Worse is the weak-mindedness that causes those people to feel they need to "wait for god", and believe everything their cult leaders tell them.
I wish I were able to be as polite as she was.
Silent3
(15,188 posts)Apart, that is, from it being so abso-fucking-lutely true.
rgbecker
(4,826 posts)These people are even afraid to admit they got a vaccine in case their friends find out!
nolabear
(41,959 posts)DOes DU need constant reinforcement of how theyre stupid and fuck them and Im better and I hope they die
I hear you all when you say that. Is this just a place now for insults and is every thought of doing anything else considered complicity? Is that all DU is now for some?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Why did you think we would be able to respect idiots?
muriel_volestrangler
(101,295 posts)This is a discussion forum. Yes, the reporter did a fine job of getting them to talk, but you can't really expect people to ignore what they said. "Reporter gets people's views" is not surprising; "people refuse free life-protected treatment for reasons that don't make sense" still is.
phylny
(8,378 posts)taken precautions, stopped getting our hair cut, spent time taking care of grandchildren and their schooling, missed important family events, dealt with food shortages, worn masks, and gotten vaccines see the level of misinformation and willful ignorance, especially in homage to The Former Guy, it's a little hard to be all sunshine, roses, and forgiveness.
These people are why we are STILL in this mess. These people have politicized it. These people have put the medical community in jeopardy. These people have definitely lost my respect.
RussBLib
(9,006 posts)...like He is wont to do.
Delphinus
(11,830 posts)the reporter interview a nurse on an Anderson Cooper segment - I really like her soft spoken manner.
On a related note, I wish mythology wasn't running the lives of so many people.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)These people are lazy. They are lazy, they lack a quality of self-discipline, and they have trouble committing to and executing a plan, of persisting in a plan through difficulty. They have built a mythology around themselves as hard workers, but I'd take a junior equities analyst over one of these guys any day of the week when it comes to hard work and stick-to-it-iveness. They are lazy and undisciplined. They have managed to con themselves and a good number of others that their vices of laziness and lack of discipline and self-control is actually a virtue: freedom or liberty. It's all a sham, and COVID is exposing it.
zuul
(14,624 posts)It's not as if "they're wrong" about whether a tv show sucks or not.
It's not as if "they're wrong" about whether or not the father of Britney Spears should hold her conservatorship.
It's not as if "they're wrong" about who is the greatest tennis player.
"They're wrong" about an imminent public health issue that is killing our friends and family members and putting all of us at risk. I listened but I will not give them my respect. They don't deserve it. They are killing people!