Anti-vaccine protesters are likening themselves to civil rights activists

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A group of mostly white protesters opposed to childhood vaccine mandates — many from affluent coastal areas — insisted that their plight is comparable to what African Americans have suffered from segregationist policies

who is facing assault charges for throwing the menstrual cup on the Senate floor. But she defended those who compare the issue to the civil rights movement. She pointed to the gay rights movement and women's suffrage, asserting that this is about bodily autonomy and parental rights.

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PlaidPolitics These people are idiots. No, you are A bunch of rich white kids with trust Funds!! You don’t have to work so you can protest all day. Soooo insulting to slaves, the black community etc... OMG! Make it stop!

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Thank you for all of the qualifying descriptors that disqualify just about all of these folks from ever comparing their 'plight' to any marginalized group's struggles. The anti-vax folks are endangering us, not the other way round.

These country club soccer moms have lost their damn minds

Omg how is keeping children healthy akin to slavery?!

So they're appropriating one of the most shameful chapters in African American history so the rest of us can appropriate measles?

Ok. I see what today is going to be like now. Damn.

rosa parks stood up for THIS?

Stop it!

Why don't they pool their money and by a remote commune where they can provide their own food, their own education, completely isolate themselves from the rest of society. They can avoid vaccination all they want, let's see what happens in the long run.

The one on the right reminds me of Emmett Till.

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'We Shall Overcome': California anti-vaccine activists claim civil rights mantleIn California, protesters opposed to childhood vaccine mandates are insisting that their plight is comparable to what African Americans have suffered from segregationist policies And so idiots did abound as slavery does not equate to stupidity. Not even close. I cant even... This is one of the dangers of living in a privileged nation. People never lived through the polio epidemics, the Spanish flu, the plague, variola, diphtheria and measles, so they are more scared of some theoretical SEs than the actual death from disease. Is there lead in the Californian water supply
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