Let me preface this by saying that I am very pro-vaxx, have received 3 shots, did it for family reasons, have had a 75+ year old unvaxxed family member die as well as other at risk family members who still wont take it (which is beyond stupid and tragic), and think anyone over 40 and/or with risk factors isnt very smart if they dont get the vaccine. My reasoning on why the even minimally at risk should get it is bc I believe the medical science that the vaccine reduces the severity of the illness, which reduces hospitalization and mortality rates. All that said, I do not believe in moral shaming or censorship of people who dont want to get the vaccine (this does not include intellectual shaming from believing conspiracies and fringe sources).
What I do believe in are personal freedoms and freedom of expression. So, in that context, and mainly interested in hearing from the adamantly pro-vaxx, what does Rodgers say below that is wrong? Does the way society has handled the covid vaccine (and other covide restriction) debate not give you some pause and concern?
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"When in the course of human history has the side that's doing the censoring and trying to shut people up and make them show papers and marginalize a part of the community ever been [the correct side]?" Rodgers said Thursday. "We're censoring dissenting opinions? What are we trying to do? Save people from being able to determine the validity on their own or to listen and to think about things and come to their own conclusion? Freedom of speech is dangerous now if it doesn't align with the mainstream narrative? That's, I think first and foremost, what I wanted people to understand, and what people should understand is that there's censorship in this country going on right now.
"Are they censoring terrorists or pedophiles? Criminals who have Twitter profiles? No, they're censoring people, and they're shadow-banning people who have dissenting opinions about vaccines. Why is that? Is that because Pfizer cleared $33 billion last year and Big Pharma has more lobbyists in Washington than senators and representatives combined? Why is the reason? Either way, if you want to be an open-minded person, you should hear both sides, which is why I listen to people like Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Peter McCullough. I have people on the other side as well. I read stuff on the vaccine-hesitancy side, and I read stuff on the vaccines-are-the-greatest-thing-in-the-world side.
"When you censor and make pariahs out of anybody who questions what you believe in or what the mainstream narrative is, that doesn't make any sense."
It sounded like what he was saying mattered to him as much as any football game he'd ever played in, if not more.
What I do believe in are personal freedoms and freedom of expression. So, in that context, and mainly interested in hearing from the adamantly pro-vaxx, what does Rodgers say below that is wrong? Does the way society has handled the covid vaccine (and other covide restriction) debate not give you some pause and concern?
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"When in the course of human history has the side that's doing the censoring and trying to shut people up and make them show papers and marginalize a part of the community ever been [the correct side]?" Rodgers said Thursday. "We're censoring dissenting opinions? What are we trying to do? Save people from being able to determine the validity on their own or to listen and to think about things and come to their own conclusion? Freedom of speech is dangerous now if it doesn't align with the mainstream narrative? That's, I think first and foremost, what I wanted people to understand, and what people should understand is that there's censorship in this country going on right now.
"Are they censoring terrorists or pedophiles? Criminals who have Twitter profiles? No, they're censoring people, and they're shadow-banning people who have dissenting opinions about vaccines. Why is that? Is that because Pfizer cleared $33 billion last year and Big Pharma has more lobbyists in Washington than senators and representatives combined? Why is the reason? Either way, if you want to be an open-minded person, you should hear both sides, which is why I listen to people like Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Peter McCullough. I have people on the other side as well. I read stuff on the vaccine-hesitancy side, and I read stuff on the vaccines-are-the-greatest-thing-in-the-world side.
"When you censor and make pariahs out of anybody who questions what you believe in or what the mainstream narrative is, that doesn't make any sense."
It sounded like what he was saying mattered to him as much as any football game he'd ever played in, if not more.
