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Canny Granny's avatar

My opinion only. He didn’t really sound sorry that those measures were taken. He just thought people should be able to say they didn’t like them. Maybe I didn’t read close enough, but did he actually say the measures taken were wrong? Maybe he did, but I was too mad reading for it to sink in. He even implied that minorities and less educated people weren’t smart enough to know the “experts” were right. I don’t remember him mentioning that the shots weren’t safe and effective either. What an ass!

Principal of granddaughter’s school sent text yesterday. All childhood vax take up is down in Tennessee. Not many trust medicine any more. We all know we are just dollar signs.

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Patrice's avatar

You are absolutely right. He still dismisses "the downtrodden" as believing in conspiracy theories. If only the elites had explained better and allowed the impoverished a chance to be heard, things would have been different. (It actually sounds to me like "conflict resolution 101", let both sides feel like they are being heard.) This guy has an elitist attitude and is trying to throw out a humble vibe, but the attitude still shines through.

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RunningLogic's avatar

These elitist pricks (sorry for the language but I am so mad nothing else fits) really gall me, they can all go to hell as far as I’m concerned!! I have two degrees and consider myself “educated” but I also know that degrees and book learning don’t guarantee discernment and being capable of rational thought, nor do their absence guarantee the opposite. Plenty of very smart and astute people out there who have limited formal education, and I get really angry at this kind of condescending attitude.

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CraigN's avatar

You probably got those degrees back when colleges actually taught something. I found it interesting that Sasha Laypova says this

"I now realize that the level of my primary education exceeded that of an average college in the US today"

in her background notes here.

https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/be-not-afraid

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Canny Granny's avatar

An 8th grade education from 1900 probably required more knowledge than many college degrees now. Have you ever seen a sample of a test from that time period?

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Chevrus's avatar

Telling that they still use an Alphabet-Expression from 1963 to marginalize dissent. Desperate measures.

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Help Needed in KS's avatar

Same here. Condescending pr*cks, one and all.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Makes ya wanna smack the smug mask right off them. Metaphorically speaking that is.

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Canny Granny's avatar

I agree.

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YYR's avatar

Yep, he still champions the jabs, just laments their approach to manipulate us ordinary folk.

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Renee Sommers's avatar

Plus you have all the Californians moving to Tennessee because of SB 277. That’s the new bill that ends any vaccine exemptions, religious, medical, etc. The only way you can get an exemption is if you’ve already had a reaction to a vax. But, it has to be the same vaccine, not all vaccines. They’re also going after any Doctor that writes an exemption.

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CraigN's avatar

I didn't really see that as an apology either. I took it more as a public acknowledgment of all the things the MSM, in this case Newsweek, were wrong about. Perhaps the author is just the sacrificial lamb to get this published. Progress.

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