Posted on 08/11/2021 12:24:07 PM PDT by livius
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s rather confused masking advice is thinly supported by science. And by now, everyone who wants a COVID jab can get one. Yet elite shaming of ordinary people keeps ratcheting up. It’s, well, shameful.
Law professor Ann Althouse recently reproduced two memes she saw on Facebook. One read: “It took ‘click it or ticket’ to get people to wear a seatbelt. I wonder if ‘mask it or casket’ might work.” The other said: “It’s a face mask, not a Star of David or pink triangle, you whiny, privileged dolt. You’re not being shoved into a cattle car and taken to camp. You’re going to Walmart for twinkies and Diet Coke. Grow up.”
They’re both poor efforts at persuasion, of course: Generally, calling people names, threatening them and saying they’re stupid are ineffective ways of winning them over.
Yet we’re seeing more and more of this sort of thing. (And note the casual classism of invoking Walmart, Twinkies and Diet Coke. Poor white people aren’t, in fact, the least-vaccinated group — that would actually be blacks and Hispanics — but bashing working-class whites is considered perfectly decent, almost mandatory.)
Maybe the mask fanatics are just poor persuaders. But it seems just as likely that they are engaging in poor persuasion because they aren’t trying to persuade.
As with so much that goes on in today’s society, and especially on social media, this sort of thing isn’t aimed at convincing those who disagree, but rather at garnering high-fives from people who agree and, ultimately, creating an ideological veneer for unquestioned elite rule.
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My 65 jeep has lap belts but my 79 K5 has the lap/shoulder type.
I don’t go in many as it is.
Most things outside of food and fuel I wind up ordering anyway.
“It took ‘click it or ticket’ to get people to wear a seatbelt”
Uh, no. What it took was installing a loud highly annoying alarm/beeper noise in cars when the seatbelt wasn’t buckled. No one wants to listen to that crap.
The can stick that mask you know where.
If they keep up this stupid stuff, more and more people won’t even go into a store and will just order.
I actually like going to the grocery store because I like browsing, picking out my own meat and vegetables, seeing new stuff, chatting with the checkers, etc. But if they’re taking that away, I’ll just order too.
That’s my feeling. I never confront anybody wearing one and I just sort of feel sorry for them for being such fools, but it infuriates me to have them impose this on me or try to make me feel guilty for not wearing their symbol of submission (to complete, non-scientific insanity).
Really? I wasn't aware it actually worked. Then why do they run the same damn campaign year after year?
Maybe with really stupid people who watch a lot of TV?
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