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Progressive, LGBTQ+ groups excluded from Vancouver Chinatown's Lunar New Year parade
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Are all people obligated to have the same view and same opinion, or are people allowed to disagree and not associate with certain types of people?
You can't demand someone publicly endorse gay/trans if you won't publicly support people who have never got a vaccine in their life.
It is perfectly tolerant to reject intolerance. In fact it is a hopeless endeavor to tolerate the intolerant.
It'd also really help your argument if you didn't use antivaxxers as an example.
Does it help you cope in the world by condemning someone with a different view? If someone says "I am against vaccines" they might agree, "Yes, I am anti-vax" and say it's an accurate description, you're not insulting them.
Yea, it does. Whether due to fears from misinformation, intentioned rejection of the social good, or just to troll - whatever the cause antivaxxers massively eroded public health and discourse. There's no shades of grey here - antivaxxers were simply wrong.
Now, some of the individuals were swept up in the misinformation and thought they acted in an ethical manner - those are folks who I hope grow as individuals and become better people... but the grifters - those who spread that misinformation for money, fame or political influence - those people can get fucked.
You still have to handle the people around you everyday who have never receieved an injection. You have stop living my emotions and opinions and actively seek out verified information that goes against what you believe in and see if you can provide your own counter information to disprove it. If you can't be friends with someone without knowing if they got injected, you are in a cult of invinsible ignorance.