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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAntivaccine activists gleefully attack and dox a 12-year-old boy who made a pro-vaccine video
I had always thought, though, that there were limits. I started to learn I was wrong a couple of years ago when antivaccine activists harassed a group of high school students in Carlsbad, CA who had made a pro-vaccine documentary as part of their broadcast class. I thought that was as low as antivaccinationists would go. I was wrong. In fact, just this week I realized just how wrong I had been when I learned about the case of a 12-year-old Mexican boy named Marco Arturo. Arturo, as you might have heard, made this viral video:
Now, you might think that antivaccinationists might at least try to be nicer while addressing Arturos wonderfully sarcastic characterization of vaccine-autism pseudoscience. He is, after all, a 12-year-old kid. In the world of adults, it is (or should be) considered unseemly to beat up on a 12-year-old kid. Its too much punching down, and punching down is generally an indication of weakness.
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Thinking of Arturo, I wondered how I would have described if Jake had been 12 years old when I first encountered him and had, for example, made an antivaccine version of a video like Arturos. Certainly, I wouldnt have treated him the way antivaccine loons have been treating Arturo. In fact, antivaccine loons have been absolutely losing their mind over Arturos video. For example, this meme collects some of the attacks
As a commenter put it, antivaccine beliefs must be incredibly fragile if a 12-year-old posting a snarky video to YouTube can threaten them so much. Most twelve year old kids would likely be intimidated by such a barrage of criticism and hatred, but Arturo handled it well:
More...http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2016/06/08/antivaccine-activists-gleefully-attack-and-dox-a-12-year-old-boy-who-made-a-pro-vaccine-video/
Now, you might think that antivaccinationists might at least try to be nicer while addressing Arturos wonderfully sarcastic characterization of vaccine-autism pseudoscience. He is, after all, a 12-year-old kid. In the world of adults, it is (or should be) considered unseemly to beat up on a 12-year-old kid. Its too much punching down, and punching down is generally an indication of weakness.
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Thinking of Arturo, I wondered how I would have described if Jake had been 12 years old when I first encountered him and had, for example, made an antivaccine version of a video like Arturos. Certainly, I wouldnt have treated him the way antivaccine loons have been treating Arturo. In fact, antivaccine loons have been absolutely losing their mind over Arturos video. For example, this meme collects some of the attacks
As a commenter put it, antivaccine beliefs must be incredibly fragile if a 12-year-old posting a snarky video to YouTube can threaten them so much. Most twelve year old kids would likely be intimidated by such a barrage of criticism and hatred, but Arturo handled it well:
More...http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2016/06/08/antivaccine-activists-gleefully-attack-and-dox-a-12-year-old-boy-who-made-a-pro-vaccine-video/
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Antivaccine activists gleefully attack and dox a 12-year-old boy who made a pro-vaccine video (Original Post)
progressoid
Jun 2016
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sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)1. He owned ever one of those scumbags
The antivax crowd is pathetic at every turn.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)2. Goddamn these people are ignorant
Codeine
(25,586 posts)3. Anti-vaxxers are really the worst people on earth.
Dangerously stupid.
Iggo
(47,552 posts)4. Kick!
Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)5. Oh, for fuck's sake, what pieces of shit those anti-vaxxers are. n/t
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)6. Well, anti-vaccine crusaders have to keep up their reputation.
Orrex
(63,208 posts)7. Kids like him make me think that theirs just might be the generation that un-fucks the world.
And anti-vax cultists can stuff their hateful ignorance up their orifices.
Oneironaut
(5,493 posts)8. These are the same nuts that are Sandy Hook truthers, or NWO truthers
They're all crazy. Trying to debate them is pointless. They absolutely refuse to listen to anything that doesn't fit their conspiracy garbage.