{"id":400784,"date":"2019-03-22T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/heres-exactly-how-ugly-and-personal\/"},"modified":"2019-03-22T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T06:30:00","slug":"heres-exactly-how-ugly-and-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/heres-exactly-how-ugly-and-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s Exactly How Ugly and Personal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Warning: This article contains profanity in some of the quotes taken off Facebook.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I was really planning on staying out of the whole vaccine debate because I don\u2019t think anyone anywhere ever changed their minds because they read a blog post once. What I can\u2019t, in good conscience, stay out of is the censorship and propaganda surrounding this debate.<\/p>\n

I read an article on CNN that was incredibly sad. A mother who had lost her young son to influenza was allegedly \u201cattacked by anti-vaxxers.\u201d\u00a0 The report said:<\/p>\n

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Grieving and frightened, just days after her son\u2019s death she checked her Facebook page hoping to read messages of comfort from family and friends.<\/p>\n

Instead, she found dozens of hateful comments: You\u2019re a terrible mother. You killed your child. You deserved what happened to your son. This is all fake \u2013 your child doesn\u2019t exist\u2026The attacks were from those who oppose vaccination\u2026 (source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Honestly, from the bottom of my heart, it\u2019s repugnant. No matter who is doing it, they should be ashamed of themselves. It\u2019s on the same level as Westboro Baptist Church members picketing the funerals of soldiers.<\/p>\n

The article goes on to say that this is a frequent occurrence, and in fact, planned as a tactic by \u201canti-vaxxers.\u201d
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Interviews with mothers who\u2019ve lost children and with\u00a0those who spy on anti-vaccination groups<\/strong>, reveal a tactic employed by anti-vaxers: When a child dies, members of the group sometimes encourage each other to go on that parent\u2019s Facebook page. The anti-vaxers then post messages telling the parents they\u2019re lying and their child never existed,<\/strong>\u00a0or that the parent murdered them,…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Warning: This article contains profanity in some of the quotes taken off Facebook. I was really planning on staying out of the whole vaccine debate because I don\u2019t think anyone anywhere ever changed their minds because they read a blog post once. What I can\u2019t, in good conscience, stay out of is the censorship and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}