Far-left
Afru.com is a news/blog site that claims to “combine art and fashion with lifestyle commentary to create a strong social justice brand.” It’s so over-the-top woke it makes me suspect some three-letter agency is really behind it. Anyway, superficially, it is aimed at aggressively gay black folks and white “allies.” To give you a taste, current offerings include “
Toke for two: honoring my favorite dead sex clients,” and, from a few weeks ago, “
If Trump wins, I will have no choice but to take my own life.” (As far as we know, he didn’t.)
It’s hard to tell when this one published; the articles are undated. From the comments, it seems like it could be up to a year old. In any case, sometime late last year, the “AFRU STAFF” published an angry editorial that blew my socks off when I recently came across it. It was headlined, “They knew: why didn’t the unvaccinated do more to warn us?”
It was exactly what it sounded like. It was not ironic or sarcastic. “Our blood,” AFRU coldly claimed, “is now on their hands.” These three paragraphs summarize the article’s sentiment:
The unvaccinated had access to important information about the potential side effects of vaccines. They knew about the risks of severe allergic reactions, blood clots, and other serious health complications. They knew that vaccines did not immunize us. They knew it wasn’t effective, and that they can cause more harm than good.
They knew all of that, but instead of warning us, the unvaccinated chose to remain silent. They chose to look the other way and not speak out about the potential dangers of vaccines. They let millions of good folks who did the right thing (at the time) fall to death and disease, and many antivaxxers even gloated online about how their coin flip had been the right bet. The more diabolical even urged folks they disagree with to “get boosted.”
We are good people; we took those injections because it was the right thing to do — until it wasn’t. The silence of the unvaccinated was a dangerous, sociopathic, and irresponsible decision that has had serious consequences for those of us who received the vaccinations. And silence is, after all, consent.
One’s immediate and perfectly normal reaction is to scoff loudly. What do they mean, we refused to speak? We were being rounded up and thrown in social media jail by the thousands. We were canceled, fired, ostracized, bot-butchered, and mercilessly mocked by sneering, arrogant white coats deployed in battalions to plague our comments, report us for terms of service violations, and we had to endure constantly being called stupid neanderthals unable to grasp “the science.”
We were also flying against the hot winds of “global thought leaders” like Pastor Jakes calling us
bad Christians for even asking the question.
So, there’s that. But once one’s knee has jerked, more reflection produces more interesting fodder for thought. First, we’ve certainly come a long way if the dark underbelly of the wokeverse has shifted from denying vaccine injuries exist to blaming unvaccinated people for them.
It also occurred to me that this narrative was a nifty way of stopping some woke people from waking up to what their government did to them, by shifting the blame off bureaucrats onto their fellow citizens who managed to escape the same fate, which is just the kind of narrative a murky, off-book, three-letter-agency would cook up.
In the short period of time during which it was open for user comments, the article’s vast comment section did not end well:
Before the comments were closed, again, the article gathered thousands and thousands of white-hot responses, ranging from total outrage to total disbelief that the original post was anything but clickbait, or worse. Every comment I had time to read expressed a thought with which you would probably strongly agree. Fair warning: the comments are addictive.
Either way, the unvaccinated fooled us narrative never got much traction. Even if AFRU was just venting off some pent-up steam —what changed? were they vaccine-injured? lost a loved one?— it is fascinating this article exists.
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I seem to recalled the unvaxxed were SHOUTED DOWN, Vilified, and pushed aside