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TexasTowelie

(127,220 posts)
Fri Nov 26, 2021, 08:41 AM Nov 2021

Prager Cries Unvaccinated Are 'Most Hated Group Since Slavery' After Claiming Gay Men Weren't

Prager Cries Unvaccinated Are ‘Most Hated Group Since Slavery’ After Claiming Gay Men Weren’t Treated Like ‘Pariahs’


Far right wing columnist and talk show host Dennis Prager is now flip-flopping on his lie that gay men were not treated like “pariahs” during the height of the AIDS crisis, but now he claims Americans refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19 are the “most hate group since slavery.”

“There were 4000 “FU Dennis Pragers’ just on one tweet last week because I had the chutzpah to say that the unvaccinated are pariahs, the way that gays were during the AIDS crisis,” Prager said, as the video below shows.

Earlier this month Prager had falsely claimed, “During the AIDS crisis can you imagine if gay men and intravenous drug users, who were the vast majority of people with AIDS, had they been pariahs the way that the non-vaccinated are? But it would have been inconceivable and should have been inconceivable.”

Prager’s lie earned him a “Pants on Fire” rating from Politifact, which among other examples cites “the near-passage of an AIDS quarantine law in California; calls by prominent commentators for banning HIV-positive people from certain jobs or even tattooing them; jokes made about the disease by White House officials.”

Read more: https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2021/11/prager-cries-unvaccinated-are-most-hated-group-since-slavery-after-claiming-gay-men-werent-treated-like-pariahs/
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Prager Cries Unvaccinated Are 'Most Hated Group Since Slavery' After Claiming Gay Men Weren't (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2021 OP
PragerU deserves a hate group designation by the SPLC after spouting that bull ck4829 Nov 2021 #1
Looks like a new variant, more robust, is spreading in Africa bucolic_frolic Nov 2021 #2
Um, unvaccinated is a choice. Baitball Blogger Nov 2021 #3
Nailed it. Cornus Nov 2021 #6
You're using thinking and logic. paleotn Nov 2021 #11
An incredibly selfish one, drmeow Nov 2021 #21
HIV+People, Gay People, and Drug Users were not treated as pariahs? Remember Ryan White? Botany Nov 2021 #4
And then there are very recent and probably current cases where people are in jail ck4829 Nov 2021 #8
Asshole has been vaccinated himself, Solomon Nov 2021 #5
He sure used medical science to save his life last month. Botany Nov 2021 #7
$$$$ is his prime driver. paleotn Nov 2021 #12
Uh, gay men WERE pariahs during the AIDS epidemic, and PatrickforB Nov 2021 #9
And the RWNJ people were urging everyone to wear masks to avoid infection. LastDemocratInSC Nov 2021 #14
As was everyone else who caught that virus. GoCubsGo Nov 2021 #20
Evil. Just evil. twodogsbarking Nov 2021 #10
They should have billboard placed right in front of there saying FU Prager I guess your ilk forgot turbinetree Nov 2021 #13
The world's self-appointed most-moral man MurrayDelph Nov 2021 #15
yeah... he's a hypocrite on the level of Dr. Laura too Demovictory9 Nov 2021 #18
Is apparently more "acceptable" than camparing them to Jews during the Holocaust... Wounded Bear Nov 2021 #16
Dennis Prager is an extremely dishonest person. he prattles on about "moral compass" of others when Demovictory9 Nov 2021 #17
This isn't very mature of me, but Poiuyt Nov 2021 #19
Softly and tenderly, Herman is calling them home.... Blue Owl Nov 2021 #22

bucolic_frolic

(55,039 posts)
2. Looks like a new variant, more robust, is spreading in Africa
Fri Nov 26, 2021, 08:52 AM
Nov 2021

One of these mutations might level the unvaccinated for good. Very sad to see stupid mental rigidity devastating people. But you can't talk sense to them. They prefer ivermectin to vaccines. I think it's tied up in politics, invincibility, macho fearlessness, and delusions. Cannot think of a time when such large swaths of the public went so crazy.

Baitball Blogger

(52,298 posts)
3. Um, unvaccinated is a choice.
Fri Nov 26, 2021, 08:57 AM
Nov 2021

Being gay: not a choice.
Being a slave: Definitely not a choice.

This one is so simple to see it really exposes their sense of privilege.

paleotn

(22,177 posts)
11. You're using thinking and logic.
Fri Nov 26, 2021, 10:59 AM
Nov 2021

Prager and his ilk don't do that. They're like extremely spoiled 5 year olds.

Botany

(77,259 posts)
4. HIV+People, Gay People, and Drug Users were not treated as pariahs? Remember Ryan White?
Fri Nov 26, 2021, 08:59 AM
Nov 2021
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_White

Didn't this jack wad just contract C-19 last month and got treated with monoclonal antibodies and
now he is out selling this horse shit? Prager knows what he is saying is a lie but he also knows among
his mouth breathing followers he can sell himself as a victim of the liberal media and the left.

ck4829

(37,675 posts)
8. And then there are very recent and probably current cases where people are in jail
Fri Nov 26, 2021, 09:22 AM
Nov 2021

because the drug 'test' field kit said the sugar or detergent were drugs.

I have yet to hear of any cases of the police pulling cars over with unvaccinated people in them and throwing them in jail for having suspected COVID when the actual lab test comes back three months later and says "it was just allergies".

2019 - https://reason.com/2021/11/16/cops-thought-sand-from-her-stress-ball-was-cocaine-she-spent-nearly-6-months-in-jail/

Botany

(77,259 posts)
7. He sure used medical science to save his life last month.
Fri Nov 26, 2021, 09:09 AM
Nov 2021

Personal life

On October 18, 2021, Prager announced that he had tested positive for COVID-19 the previous week and had received ivermectin and Regeneron's monoclonal antibody treatment. He stated that "natural immunity" from deliberately contracting COVID-19 is what he had "hoped for the entire time". from wiki

PatrickforB

(15,420 posts)
9. Uh, gay men WERE pariahs during the AIDS epidemic, and
Fri Nov 26, 2021, 10:41 AM
Nov 2021

guess who made it worse?

Saint Ronnie, that's who.

But guys like Prager are just click bait. Unfortunately many people listen, and many believe.

LastDemocratInSC

(4,239 posts)
14. And the RWNJ people were urging everyone to wear masks to avoid infection.
Fri Nov 26, 2021, 11:19 AM
Nov 2021

Before the mode of transmission was understood.

GoCubsGo

(34,889 posts)
20. As was everyone else who caught that virus.
Fri Nov 26, 2021, 03:09 PM
Nov 2021

Like Ryan White, and the other child and adult hemophiliacs, who got it through blood transfusions. They were run out not only their schools, but in some cases, their own homes because they were sick. Praeger needs a mental evaluation to see if he has Alzheimer's or dementia, because his memory is sorely lacking. Perhaps someone could show him the recordings of Princess Diana hugging an AIDS victim, and why that was such a HUGE deal at the time.

turbinetree

(27,488 posts)
13. They should have billboard placed right in front of there saying FU Prager I guess your ilk forgot
Fri Nov 26, 2021, 11:08 AM
Nov 2021

one Ryan White......what classification was he....so FU Prager...

MurrayDelph

(5,748 posts)
15. The world's self-appointed most-moral man
Fri Nov 26, 2021, 01:37 PM
Nov 2021

has always railed against the persecution of those who agree with him.

Twenty-four years ago, when my non-smoker mother was dying of lung cancer, Prager (a pipe smoker) was on the air railing against the immorality of having to smoke outside because of "the myth of second-hand smoke."

Wounded Bear

(64,284 posts)
16. Is apparently more "acceptable" than camparing them to Jews during the Holocaust...
Fri Nov 26, 2021, 01:40 PM
Nov 2021


On the internet, everything seems to go to full extremist mode almost immediately. No sublety allowed.

Typical RW bullshit.

Demovictory9

(37,113 posts)
17. Dennis Prager is an extremely dishonest person. he prattles on about "moral compass" of others when
Fri Nov 26, 2021, 02:37 PM
Nov 2021

his moral compass is broken.

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