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Re:FDA meeting to pick next winter's flu shot is canceled, i... by fzeroracer on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @09:54PM (#43190827)
This sort of rhetoric might've worked pre-Presidency but you would have to be either deliberately ignorant or outright agree with some of the hateful rhetoric of the president. Things like depriving transgender individuals of their basic rights, moving to denaturalize citizens, the white house posting illegal immigration deportation ASMR [1] and many, many more.

[1] https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1891922058415603980

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Re:FDA meeting to pick next winter's flu shot is canceled, i... by _heimdall on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @11:12PM (#43191285)
Oh I don't agree with any of the examples you raised. I also don't know how to compare levels of hate, though.

I took issue with Obama-era ICE raids, Biden's speeches regarding anyone that decided not to get vaccinated, Bush's description of really most of the middle east. Hell, even how many have talked about Russians as though every single Russian citizen supports the Ukraine war is hateful.

Hate is almost a given when groups are given a name and we begin othering people. That's nothing new to human history and has seemed to be more and more common over the last decade or two.

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