Recently the enormously popular American conservative political commentator Ben Saphiro made a video about some radical activist calling the coronavirus vaccine a "vial of death", and how vaccine hesitancy was really high particularly among black people. The main point of his video, however, was not the vaccine itself, but how the far-leftist social justice warriors have tried to spin this phenomenon and blame it on "systemic oppression" or whatever. Ben himself, however, doesn't have any problems with the vaccines.
Much unlike his audience.
I estimate that I skimmed through something like 500 first comments appearing below his video. Can you guess how many of those comments were people saying that they will not be taking the vaccine?
Every. Single. One.
That's right. Not just "many". Not even "the vast majority". Every single comment that I read was someone saying that he or she would not be taking the vaccine. I didn't see a single exception. (I saw a couple of exceptions as responses to some comments, but that's it.)
Not a single comment, not even one, was in some kind of agreement with Saphiro. Not a single comment was about something other than the subject of the vaccine itself and whether to take it. Not a single comment was, for example, about Saphiro's main point, which was about how the far-left is distorting the vaccine hesitation of black people for their own political agenda. Not one. Every single comment was an expression of "I'm not taking the vaccine". Every single one of the about 500 first comments that I read.
I suppose that it's somewhat refreshing that the comment section of a popular political commentator isn't just full of dick sucking, but come on, not even one single comment of agreement?
It appears that in the same way that American conservatism and climate science denialism go hand-in-hand, also American conservatism and coronavirus vaccine hesitancy seems to go hand-in-hand. (Or, at least in the case of conservatives who watch Ben Saphiro.)
I have commented countless time how the far-left has formed a herd mentality where everybody thinks the same. Well, it appears that the American conservative masses aren't all that different either.
Not even one deviating comment... sheesh. Gimme a f'ing break. What a cult.
(At least Saphiro himself got a bit more respect from me. At least he seems to dare to dissent from the majority opinion of his own audience.)
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