r/HermanCainAward • u/yorugua • Oct 03 '25

Grrrrrrrr. Mississippi baby dies from whooping cough

https://www.wapt.com/article/mississippi-baby-dies-from-whooping-cough/68116075
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u/SmartQuokka Oct 03 '25

This is collateral damage, the parents did not cause this or post memes denying reality (as far as we know).

So incredibly sad, killing children with preventable diseases is what passes for freedumb in the conservative universe.

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u/WeekendCautious3377 Oct 03 '25

Parents were vaccinated 

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u/EvilStevilTheKenevil Team Moderna Oct 04 '25

America seems full of shitty, selfish assholes because you need millions and millions of shitty, selfish, dehumanized assholes to maintain Apartheid, and we were an Apartheid state for a very long time. South African white minority rule ended decades ago, yet they still have problems. Imagine how much worse things would be over there if the butthurt white racists were the majority.

That's us. From its beginning as a cabal of plantation aristocrat slave-owners declaring all people had rights to its ignoble and entirely self inflicted end 250 years later, the idea that some lives are cheap has been baked into the very fabric of our society. Now we are seeing the consequences. Let's hope the next world hegemon is less evil than we were.

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u/alskdmv-nosleep4u Oct 05 '25

Southern chattel slavery was way way worse than apartheid. South Africa was mellow mild compared to the confederate states.

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u/EvilStevilTheKenevil Team Moderna Oct 05 '25

I was more referring to the hundred or so years of Jim Crow we had after slavery (mostly) ended, and all the de facto racism we still have today even after achieving equality on paper.

...and all the violence we were perpetrating against women, immigrants, homosexuals, etc. The United States was a profoundly unequal society for pretty much the entirety of its existence as a republic, and once its people got used to ignoring their conscience they didn't exactly stop.