Anti-vax organizers explicitly compare themselves to enslaved people

Evidence

This kind of racial role-playing is ubiquitous among the diagonalists. In the spring of 2021, Wolf was scheduled to speak about her “Five Freedoms” campaign at an anti-vax event that was planned for Juneteenth, the day that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. The journalist Eoin Higgins questioned the organizer about the appropriateness of co-opting a holiday so central to Black liberation for these purposes. The response: “We have been enslaved by our government.” — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 825

Categorization

• SEED: A sharp essay could track the trajectory from ‘second-class citizens’ rhetoric to outright ‘we are the slaves’ claims — a rhetoric whose endpoint logically requires treating oneself as the victim of American slavery.