r/HermanCainAward HCA Historian Nov 26 '22 Take My Energy 1

Political polarization peer pressured people to pass on procuring proven prophylactic - The peer pressure compilation part 2 Meta / Other

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u/ganonpig HCA Historian Nov 26 '22 All-Seeing Upvote Eureka!

There was never a moral panic about kids being peer pressured into taking experimental drugs. There was a panic about kids experimenting with drugs. These are wholly different things. The issue was never that drugs weren't adequately tested yet, it's that street drugs are a risk because of their illegal status. There is danger in acquiring them and danger in using them, a lot of the time a result of what the state will do to you if they catch you.

Vaccines that have been through the testing protocols and approved by medical boards and agencies worldwide, made in a controlled environment in a medical laboratory and administered under supervision of a medical professional isn't 'taking experimental drugs'.

I rate this a

  • Fearmongering about loss of freedom / totalitarian state meme

  • Downplaying covid meme

  • Sowing distrust in science / promoting vaccine conspiracy theories meme


Share numbers above 10K for some of the vectors of this meme on FB:

Mustard yellow background version

  • May 16, 2021 : 10K

  • May 22, 2021 : 11K

BOOM

Grey background version

  • May 22, 2021 : 41K

Needle background version

  • Jul 30 ,2021 : 62K

  • Jul 18, 2021 : 84K

TRUE

  • Jun 5, 2021 : 139K

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u/GoldWallpaper Nov 26 '22

There was never a moral panic about kids being peer pressured into taking experimental drugs.

Yeah, even the initial meme is nonsensical, and would only be shared by a semi-literate idiot.

Given that, this is kind of like shooting already-dead fish in a barrel.

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u/ConsiderationWest587 Nov 26 '22

Sounds like you weren't cool enough to be peer-pressured into drugs lol