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The term pureblood doesnt exactly have the best connotations. But now unvaccinated people on TikTok are, er, trying to reclaim the term as a way to tout their superiority over their jabbed fellow citizens.
The phrase was popularized by J.K. Rowlings villain Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter series as a way to distinguish between those with pure wizard ancestry and everyone else, drawing parallels with the Nazi doctrine of the master race. As a concept, basically, its been used to justify some of the worst crimes against humanity in history.
The new pureblood trend seems to have gotten a big boost from conservative TikToker influencer Lyndsey Marie in a post shared last week replete with hashtags like #harrypotter, #pureblood, and #unvaccinated.
From now on, I refuse to be referred to as unvaccinated, she declared. I want everyone to now call me Pureblood.
The video has since racked up nearly 250,000 views and Lyndsey Marie is now promising her followers that a line of pureblood merch (which will feature an image of a lion and the text, PUREBLOOD; Unmasked, Unvaxxed, Unafraid.)
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kvywd/unvaccinated-tiktok-purebloods-covid
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They should take note of some other unvaxxed loudmouths who have recently met Sister Death.
EYESORE 9001
(25,938 posts)a lot of that pure blood gets swapped for embalming fluid.
tanyev
(42,558 posts)Johnny2X2X
(19,066 posts)Adults in the US are now 76% vaccinated with at least 1 shot, so this vocal minority that gets all the attention is less than 1 in 4 adults.
I don't think this gets focused on enough, the anti Covid vaxxers are a shrinking minority, they're extremists. The coverage of them makes it sound like the country is split 50-50 on Covid vaccines, it's not, it's 76-24 and that disparity is growing everyday.
OnDoutside
(19,956 posts)Response to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)
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highplainsdem
(48,978 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(9,971 posts)that the term is associated with bigotry. I suspect that a lot of these young idiots are more than a little neo-nazi themselves.
And I have a friend named Lindsey Marie (note difference in spelling!) with whom I differ politically, but a) she is not on social media, being very shy and a private person in the extreme, and b) she is most definitely NOT batshit crazy! I think she would object to this person "appropriating her name" even though it's spelled differently.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)Pure ignorant dumbfucks works for moi!!
FSogol
(45,485 posts)Paladin
(28,257 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(9,971 posts)obamanut2012
(26,076 posts)Leith
(7,809 posts)The deatheaters were modeled on the nazis. Pretty much anything that was evil about the nazis and deatheaters can be said about anti-vaxxers.
Funny thing to want to associate oneself with. How long will it take them to realize that the character Stormfront from the Amazon Prime TV show The Boys is all that they long to follow?
Zambero
(8,964 posts)As such, the virus will eventually find them.
Wounded Bear
(58,656 posts)DBoon
(22,366 posts)DBoon
(22,366 posts)"Pureblood - for a quick delicious snack"
mnhtnbb
(31,388 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,587 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)She has Lupus and begged the students to vaccinate and mask up. This young woman stood up and said she refused, she was a prue blood. I am at a loss, these antivaxers are nuts.
ARPad95
(1,671 posts)blood type O and Rh negative as we are the universal blood donors. Anyone can receive our blood no matter their blood type. The irony is that we can only receive O Rh negative blood.
If we are also C(yto)M(egalo)V(irus) negative, we are considered Heroes for Babies because our blood can be given to the tiniest patients.
https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/how-to-donate/types-of-blood-donations/whole-blood-donation/helpbabies.html
Only 2% of the world's population is O Rh neg AND CMV neg.
Therefore, these self-described "purebloods" are almost certainly pure BSers!
P.S. This O neg CMV neg "pureblood" is 100% vaccinated.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,470 posts)Cant remember if its
positive or negative
I got o too I think
Didn't know it was o that is the universal donor blood type. I knew about the rh negative tho.
ARPad95
(1,671 posts)If a woman is Rh negative and her partner is Rh positive, it could cause problems with future pregnancies if her 1st pregnancy is with Rh positive fetus unless she receives injections of RhoGAM. RhoGAM prevents her from producing antibodies to Rh positive blood. Prior to RhoGAM being available, the Rh positive babies of Rh negative mothers would suffer hemolytic disease of the newborn. The mother's immune system would recognize the baby's blood as foreign and destroy the baby's red blood cells.
https://www.chop.edu/conditions-diseases/hemolytic-disease-newborn
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,470 posts)She told me she almost died and had an out of body experince when I was born also I was born 6 months early and was in an incubator for over a month.
She never told us what drugs or whatever else she was injected with birth wise. Execpt she told me she was taking testosterone before she knew she was pregant to stop her milk production after my sister was like 2 years old.
I often wonder if the testosterone she was taking had some part in me being transgendered.
But I dont know if she needed RohGAM or not. She is however type O.
Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)it out of the NICU in just one month?
That's remarkable.
Jus' kiddin' with ya. Pretty sure you meant 6 weeks.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,470 posts)Maybe she mixed up the numbers but I was in an incubater for over a month. I do know that.
Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)Your baby photos look like this:
It's a safe bet you were born sometime later.
ARPad95
(1,671 posts)I think it's possible the testosterone your mother was given crossed the placenta during her 1st trimester with you and caused the natural testosterone/androgenic hormones production that should have happened to shut down or go awry.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279001/
Genital sex differentiation involves a series of events whereby the sexually indifferent embryo progressively acquires male or female characteristics in the gonads, genital tract and external genitalia. Sex development consists of several sequential stages. Genetic sex, as determined by the chromosome constitution, drives the primitive gonad to differentiate into a testis or an ovary. Subsequently, internal and external genitalia will follow the male pathway in the presence of specific testicular hormones, or the female pathway in their absence. Since the presence of the fetal testis plays a determining role in the differentiation of the reproductive tract, the term "sex determination" has been coined to designate the differentiation of the gonad during early fetal development.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,470 posts)Get an exam down there at a new gblt freindly place and the gyn asked if I had genital mutilation.
I wonder because
It was the 60s when I was born.
Back then they'd alter ambiguous genetalia to look female or male
Regardless of what the baby would later identify as.
And when I took testosterone I didnt grow much down there
My endro didnt know why because i should have had changes.
I don't take T anymore
because Im diabetic.
All my internal and external parts are gone. So T had very little estrogen to hinder its effects.
Was on T for over 5 years.
But on the good side My beard is beautiful and growing however. I have a naturally forked goatee .
ARPad95
(1,671 posts)It seems like you've been through a lot and it's very unfortunate you will not be able to have your questions answered definitively. I'm one of those "I need to know what happened and why" type of persons. It would drive me crazy not to have answers.
Are you an insulin dependent diabetic?
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,470 posts)I take metformin and glimperide.
Eat a keto diet.
I am a need to know and why type like you are. yes it drives me nuts and leads me to more questions.Its a mystery but I hope one day to find the truth.
SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)I've seen it used quite a bit over in freeperville.
These are the folks that claim they will demand blood from the unvaccinated if they need a transfusion. Yeah, good luck with that.
moondust
(19,981 posts)meadowlander
(4,395 posts)Play your little fascist memes in the corner while the grown-ups sort out climate change.
ismnotwasm
(41,980 posts)Mostly over the Harry Potter angle. Its also a deliberate owning the libs move which is backfiring in a spectacular and satisfying way.