Posted on 01/14/2022 6:58:52 AM PST by ransomnote
Columnist Michael Hiltzik, who writes for the LA Times, wrote an article that said that mocking the deaths of “anti-vaxxers” is “necessary.”
The article, which has had its headline changed multiple times, tries to argue that mocking the unvaccinated and vaccine-hesitant after they die encourages others to get the jab.
Disturbingly, the URL was originally titled ‘Why Shouldn’t We Dance On The Graves of Anti-Vaxxers?’
ransomnote: article link https://latimes.com/business/story/2022-01-10/why-shouldnt-we-dance-on-the-graves-of-anti-vaxxers
However, its final incarnation is now published as ‘Mocking anti-vaxxers’ COVID deaths is ghoulish, yes — but may be necessary.’
The changing of the headline suggests that the newspaper was trying to minimise the inevitable backlash that would occur.
Most of the article was focused on mocking the death of conservative activist Kelly Ernby, who campaigned against mandatory covid vaccines for children as a condition of going to school, but subsequently died from “covid complications.”
Hiltzik wrote: “Kelly Ernby’s friends and family ask us to remember her for her career as a public servant and as a devoted spouse and mother. But let’s not mince words: Her campaigns against public health measures negated whatever good she may have done in her other endeavors.
“The policies Ernby advocated may well have contributed to the spread of COVID and to the damaging of the public health infrastructure in her own community. Even before this pandemic, she spoke out for measures that would threaten California schoolchildren with exposure to deadly childhood diseases. There were no scientific or medical grounds for her opposition to mandates; there was only political ideology.”
He added that the media should report on the deaths of people who question the vaccines and covid restrictions.
“But mockery is not necessarily the wrong reaction to those who publicly mocked anti-COVID measures and encouraged others to follow suit, before they perished of the disease the dangers of which they belittled,” he wrote.
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What about the mysterious deaths of the vaxxed?
https://banned.video/watch?id=61df784eae95bf6e8f3edc68
Laughing at journalists is reflex.
You know, these kinds of stories aren’t a bad thing at all.
It’s a good thing that these sociopaths are feeling comfortable and bold enough to show exactly who they are.
It’s good to know who to look out for - who needs watching.
I keep wondering if there might be different standards of care for someone who’s “on the wrong side.” Haha, I know: Nurses and doctors are all blessed saintly people who treat everyone exactly the same, right?
Me and Mr K are both worried about getting sick - he visits many crowded places every day for his job and a bunch of his coworkers have had it. I don’t have any contact with anyone (WHICH IS HOW I LIKE IT!) except him.
And if I do get sick, what if I need hospitalization? I know they won’t be nice to me in the hospital! Even without the pandemic going on, the hospital is the absolute LAST place I want to be.
Does anyone know of doctors/nurses who have admitted they treat conservatives or the unvaccinated differently in the hospital?
“Rumors of our death have been greatly exaggerated” - Unvaxxed (Naturally Immune)
So, they won’t mind when we start mocking the vaxxed who are dropping like flies from heart attack and the return of aggressive cancers?
One can only hope she gets a Booster and DIES immediately thereafter from said booster.
Then so is mocking vaxed deaths
Let’s pray that journalist like the one who wrote this article fail.
“His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night
How about mocking triple boosted vaxxed who contract COVID and die?
Would it be allright if we mock people who died of AIDS or of obesity?
Mocking those may be necessary.
Smily faced fascist.
Typical of leftists, she operates under the delusion that what she “knows” is the “truth” and will tolerate no other options or discussion.
Is it ok to ridicule the deaths of anyone we disagree with or just people who won’t get the vaccine?
“.............It’s good to know who to look out for - who needs watching.”
The masks are falling off.
But mocking the deaths of the vaxxed is cruel. /s
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