Unreckoned medical violence left marginalized communities vulnerable to pandemic misinformation

Evidence

Reckonings with these histories are long overdue; in their absence, public health bureaucracies found that their efforts to battle Covid in marginalized communities were frequently met with skepticism. These dynamics also made some of these communities easy prey for peddlers of misinformation like my doppelganger, with her inflammatory claims on Fox that vaccine apps were tantamount to IBM’s collaboration with the Nazi death machine. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 254

Categorization

• XREF: Core of the ‘diagonalism’ thesis: real grievances (medical mistrust rooted in real atrocities) get metabolized by the far-right misinformation apparatus. Also connects to Klein’s method of tracking how her doppelganger’s claims intersect with legitimate concerns. — connects to: Real government medical abuses complicate dismissals of health conspiracies — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 533; Chemical and radiological violence becomes invisible cellular drama in poor bodies — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 28; Systemic expert marginalization yields pandemics, budget-driven recessions, and health system collapse. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 385