Why do the people you grow up loving for their music make you hate them for their politics. It’s literally free for them all to just stfu
It’s weird how correlated these things are. Are all racists antivax? No. Are all antivaxers racist? No.
But the overlap is so high that it’s unsurprising to learn someone who is one of these things is also the other.
It’s largely because the latest right-wing dogwhistle is anti-vaxx. Before Covid and the Trump presidency, most anti-vaxxers were left wing hippies living in communes and taking colloidal silver for cancer treatment or having their naturopath distill the vibrations in their body water to treat sickness.
My recollection is that the shift started pre-covid. Anti-vaxxers were originally predominantly left leaning but I think it hit the 50/50 range somewhere around 2012-2014. At least in the US. Trump shifted it even more, then covid+Trump just completely inverted where it had been a generation prior.
The “vaccines cause autism” crowd are what comes to my mind.
I agree with everything here except that the right wing anti-vax nonsense began with trump and Covid. That definitely accelerated things, but there was a strong anti-vax sentiment in the Republican Party even before trump.
During the GOP primary debates for the 2016 election, every single candidate cast doubt on the standard childhood vaccine regimen. The candidate who came closest to supporting vaccinating children was Rand Paul. And even though he definitely knows better, he argues vaccines should be given at a slower rate to “spread out” the effects.
I think the aversion to vaccines comes from the republican mistrust of science and expertise in general. This “know nothing”ism has been growing for a while - see Sarah Palin in the 2012 election.
The Venn diagram is damn near a perfect circle.
i don’t want them to shut up, i’m glad to know these things.
Clapton has been a racist piece of shit since the 70s. He also copied most of his signature style from blues musicians, along with a couple of songs he claimed to have written and later admitted he didn’t.
He’s a garbage human who has a talent for the guitar.
I feel this. I was completely surprised when I found out how much of a bigot he is.
maaaaaan I was ignorant of how shitty this man was. Fuck you Eric Clapton.
well, the good news is that he’s miserable. he’s written a lot fo music for decades about it.
What a shock, he’s always been a horrible person.
Fuck Eric Clapton
