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Red Menace Teaser: QAnon and the Shattered American Mind

Rev Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

Philosophy, News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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0:00.0

talking about the sort of conspiratorial thinking in our society and like the anti-vaccine

0:05.2

stuff. We've always had a resurgence of that and it's sort of unlike some other conspiracy

0:10.0

theories, vaccines are one of the one of the conspiracy theories that go across the political

0:14.4

spectrum for different reasons. On the left, I think you do have this sense of like suspicion

0:20.2

of corporations and big farm, which can lead to left wing versions of vaccine conspiracy theories.

0:25.6

And you have some like center, center right, center left conspiracy thinking about like Bill Gates

0:30.8

and the global elite and the Illuminati and being microchipped. And then you just have on the

0:35.6

on the far right just a disdain of any expertise anti-scientific thinking, anti-intellectualism,

0:41.8

anti all of that stuff, which feeds into it from that end. Like I even today on Instagram,

0:47.3

I saw Immortal Technique post something where he's suspicious of these vaccines or whatever,

0:51.6

you know, whatever you think about Immortal Technique, the fact is he's on the left and giving credence

0:55.9

to these things. On the other hand, we can't totally dismiss this stuff either. It's not like every

1:01.7

single vaccine has been 100% safe and particularly when it's rushed so quickly, it's really just

1:08.4

honestly hard to say. In Pakistan, we were talking about this on gorilla history. In Pakistan,

1:15.0

it came out that a few years ago when they were searching for Osama bin Laden, one of the things

1:19.5

the CIA did was set up, I think it was a fake polio vaccination thing, right? And what they're

1:24.8

really doing was extracting genetic data from the people hoping to find a close relative of bin Laden

1:30.4

to then follow and see if they can get them, right? And when this story came out, not only did it

1:35.4

did it provide a lot of energy to the insurgency and you know, counter American forces or even Islamic

1:41.0

extremist forces, it made the regular everyday people suspicious of vaccines and there's cases

1:46.9

throughout history where this has been the case. And so it's not like these things come with

1:51.2

absolutely no risks, right? We don't want to fall into the the the error of saying, you know,

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