May 26, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The Twitter police come for everyone eventually. Your humble correspondent was reminded of that the hard way Wednesday after daring to correct a tweet by someone more in line with the social giant’s approved “facts.”
It all started when I noticed the following tweet by College Fix reporter and USA Today contributor Christian Schneider:
Conservatives mock the term “my body, my choice” when it comes to abortion because they point out the health of another human is also at stake. But then they use the phrase in opposing vaccine mandates, even though – once again – other people are at risk.
— Christian Schneider (@Schneider_CM) May 26, 2021
This is fallacious on multiple levels. First, conservatives generally adopt “my body, my choice” in the COVID-19 debate expressly to highlight the hypocrisy of liberals who use it as justification to let people destroy the bodies of innocent children while they’re inside (but not part of) women’s bodies, yet have no qualms about trampling people’s actual bodily autonomy in the name of corona control.
Second, the claim that refusal to vaccinate endangers other people is entirely dependent on the premise that COVID-19 is commonly spread by
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