Meet the New, Dangerous Fringe of the Anti-Vaccination Movement

[KamaAina]

http://jezebel.com/meet-the-new-dangerous-fringe-of-the-anti-vaccination-1713438567

The 11-year-old girl’s mother saw the Facebook message first. It came from a profile that looked like it belonged to the girl’s beloved aunt, but the words didn’t sound like her.

“Your mother is a fat ugly lazy piece of shit who tried to kill you,” the message read. “She is a bully and suffers from mental problems. She is under investigation for the hate groups and illegal computer crimes she’s committing. I hope you like your new home. You can thank me when you’re older.”

But this message wasn’t from the child’s aunt. It came from someone the child had never met, part of a controversy she knows nothing about. The child had fallen in the vaccine war’s widening social warpath: one in which anti-vaxxers actively seek to interfere with and smear the families, jobs, and children of the people who fall on the other side of the line....

“We all know that AVers tend to say the stupidest shit,” the group’s description reads. (AVers is a shorthand for anti-vaccination activists.) “This group is a way that we can catalogue it and then mock it into the dust for all of Facebook to see.”

[HassleCat]

1. Ummm....

From the text it sounds like something the anti-anti-vax people would send out. It appears to mock the parents who refuse to have their kids vaccinated. Are we looking at quotes from two groups here? One that sent out the message, and another that responded?

[Dr Hobbitstein]

4. Anti-anti-vax?

Wouldn't that be "reasonable people"?

[Dr Hobbitstein]

2. Well, if facts aren't on your side

Resort to vile tactics like this, I always say. Fucking anti-vaxxers. Waste of fresh air.

[closeupready]

3. Another day, another thread to trash. Thanks!