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minus-squareSupraMario@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down5·4 months agoThe bad part is antivaxxers aren’t all right wing idiots. There is a large number of them who vote dem. This goes a lot deeper than just politics at this point. The level of homeopathic health has more people than ever believing in it.
minus-squareA_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down2·4 months agoI’ve never met an alt-med/antivax loon, even the real hippy dippy barefoot ones, that didnt lean right. but i guess maybe some exist somewhere.
minus-squarePotatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·4 months agoMy city is full of crunchy granola hippies who are barefoot and are pro-tolerance, BLM, etc. They would absolutely not vote right. But they would absolutely be antivax and try to heal you with chakra magic or rosewater.
minus-squarehuginn@feddit.itcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·4 months agoSince the pandemic antivax is overwhelmingly conservative. Before then it was fringe hippies… who were also often conservative, they just smoked weed as well.
minus-squareSupraMario@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·4 months agoO I’m not saying it doesn’t skew one way, but there are a lot of people on the left who are the everything in the stores are poison types.
The bad part is antivaxxers aren’t all right wing idiots. There is a large number of them who vote dem. This goes a lot deeper than just politics at this point. The level of homeopathic health has more people than ever believing in it.
I’ve never met an alt-med/antivax loon, even the real hippy dippy barefoot ones, that didnt lean right.
but i guess maybe some exist somewhere.
My city is full of crunchy granola hippies who are barefoot and are pro-tolerance, BLM, etc. They would absolutely not vote right.
But they would absolutely be antivax and try to heal you with chakra magic or rosewater.
Since the pandemic antivax is overwhelmingly conservative.
Before then it was fringe hippies… who were also often conservative, they just smoked weed as well.
O I’m not saying it doesn’t skew one way, but there are a lot of people on the left who are the everything in the stores are poison types.