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In 2016, after the horrifying attacks by extremists in Paris on Charlie Hebdo, the satirical magazine, on a Jewish supermarket, and on the Bataclan concert hall — which left 107 people dead — France made the decision to open reeducation camps. In these camps, alleged radicalized Islamists would “be taught their patriotic duties and forced to undergo psychological treatment in an attempt to counter jihadist indoctrination.”
The move was highly controversial and drew criticisms from human rights experts, including survivors of China’s reeducation camps for Uighurs. Though the criticisms were well-founded, the crimes of those they were trying to stop were well documented, and left a blood trail that shook the country to its core.
Fast-forward to 2021 and “experts” in the United Kingdom want to begin similar reeducation or “deradicalization” operations. This time, however, they aren’t trying to convert violent extremists responsible for the murder of over 100 people. This time, they are targeting those who refuse the vaccine.
The Independent interviewed one of these so-called experts who is advocating for “deradicalizing” folks who refuse the jab and his comments are certainly shocking.
Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, chair in cognitive psychology at the University of Bristol, thinks that those who refuse to take the jab are akin to batsh*t crazy tinfoil hat-wearing loons, who think Hilary Clinton is a lizard. Seriously.
“They’ll refuse anything – ‘I’m not going to wear a mask’, ‘I’m not going to get vaccinated’, ‘I don’t think climate change is happening’, ‘Covid is a hoax’, and, you know, ‘Hillary Clinton is actually a reptilian shapeshifter’,” he told the Independent, adding, “You’re getting to people who hold a cluster of very exotic beliefs – now, they’re very difficult to reach.”
Lewandowsky called this faction of folks who choose not to take the jab, “hardcore refuseniks” who cannot be reached through conventional means — so, they need to be treated like cult members or terrorists.
“In the ideal world, time and money permitting, you can engage even those people in a very slow, long-term process where you affirm their right to have those beliefs… rather than telling them something about themselves they don’t want to hear, let’s put it that way,” he said.
“So you tell them something positive, and then engage in what is effectively the same as a deradicalization process for former terrorists, or cult members.”
By this logic, Joe Rogan and others — who have had covid-19 and choose not to take the jab because they trust their natural immunity — are akin to terrorists or cult members.
“Because we’re really talking, when we get down to that small number of committed refusers, we’re talking about the psychology of cults and extremism, and it’s a very similar psychology.”
But is it really cult-like to not want to take a vaccine that was approved in record time for a disease that 99% of people survive? Let’s ask the prominent members of the Democratic Party what they thought last year?
https://twitter.com/ArthurSchwartz/status/1423024579207999488
Are all these folks in a cult? Were they spreading misinformation? The science never changed when one puppet left the white house and another entered, so why was there such hesitancy among the left before Biden was elected? Did these democrats need reeducation last year?
Obviously these are rhetorical questions but they are meant to make the point that hesitancy about a vaccine that was rushed to market in record time — is completely normal behavior. Even now, it is still acceptable to be skeptical as new information continues to roll out about the jab.
Yes, side effects are extremely rare, but as TFTP reported last week, they happen, and science knows they happen. Why claim someone is in a cult for acknowledging this?
Lewandowsky then went on in the interview to claim that Facebook and YouTube aren’t censoring enough information which allows these “cult member refuseniks” to “exist.”
“One of the reasons these hardcore refuseniks exist is because they can live in their own ecosystem of misinformation,” he said.
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In multiple instances, however, those who are accused of spreading this “misinformation” have been censored into oblivion only to be proven right and vindicated months later as the establishment is forced to admit they were wrong.
What’s more, as we reported several weeks ago, the British Medical Journal published an incendiary report exposing faked data, blind trial failures, poorly trained vaccinators, and a slow follow-up on adverse reactions in the phase-three trial of Pfizer’s Covid jab. Is that not misinformation?
What about the CDC director stating that the vaccine is 100% effective? Or Fauci saying not to wear masks and then telling Americans to wear two masks before claiming that all three vaccines are 100% effective?
What about this week’s announcement that Pfizer may not disclose their vaccine data until the year 2096? Should we blindly trust a company who wants to keep their information secret about a product we put in our bodies — for the next 75 years?
With the constantly shifting goal posts that have been a staple of this pandemic, it is no wonder people are skeptical. It went from two weeks to flatten the curve, to mandatory masks, to two shots to get your freedom back, to a subscription model in which Pfizer is now advocating four shots. When does this end?
Perhaps the problem here isn’t the folks who remain skeptical. Perhaps, the real problem is the ever-changing, goal post-moving establishment, who continues to roll out ineffective dictates, mandates, and lockdowns, as they incessantly flout them, while demonizing anyone who questions their narrative…. Perhaps.
Image via NY Post. Article cross-posted from The Free Thought Project.
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Please do Come and TRY TO RE-EDUCATE ME????
I’m Waiting for you…..
These so called “EXPERTS” need to be lined up against a brick wall………………….you get the idea….
FJB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EFF Frankenfauci!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The problem is that person is obviously projecting his cult like obedience onto those that disagree with same. Common psychological defense mechanism. Liberals do that all the time. The sad thing is they are too unselfaware to have a clue they are the ones who are bat***t crazy.
In other words, we need to be initiated into the cult that says something that has no effect is effective. The cult of DoubleSpeak.
You mean the same treatment forbidden to be used to de-program homosexuals & transgenders?
And this is why we need a 2nd Amendment – if these people actually followed science we wouldn’t be seeing things like this.
Whenever someone is referred to an “Expert” you know the stupidity is coming next.
Says the FOOLS who are STILL injecting EXPERIMENTAL TOXINS into their bodies that DO NOT WORK.
If that crap actually works, WHY after a WHOLE YEAR is it still operating under an emergency order keeping is CREATORS FROM BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DEATHS AND INJURIES IT IS STILL CAUSING TO THIS DAY?
Ignorant DUMBASSES, one and all.
Experts are only useful as ballistics test dummies.
excellent idea, depopulate dummies.
Only the high priest know science, either you follow their religion, or they burn you at the stake.
We have grown so much since the dark ages.
Can Professor Stephan Lewandowsky explain why people continually have to mask and booster up if the “vaccine” works?
Can he explain why those who are “vaccinated” can still get covid and spread it?
Please. Professor Stephan Lewandowsky would be doing good to adequetely explain how he gets dressed in the morning. This dip$hit is spouting what he’s being told to spout. Not a critical thought occurring anywhere inside that cranium – no room for thought, too full of $hit.
1. Why did the CDC secretly change the definition of “vaccine” on their website right before the Pfizer COVID-19 drug was approved?
2. Why is natural immunity almost totally ignored or dismissed by the CDC?
3. Why are children being forced to take an experimental blood-clotting drug when their risk is almost ZERO and it won’t stop transmission anyway?
4. Why does Fauci continue to deny gain of function research against clear proof that he did and still continues to do so?
5. What exactly is an mRNA modifying spike protein and how does that totally differ than a normal vaccine?
6. Why are we continuing to be forced to wear cloth masks that don’t work?
7. Why does the CDC deny Ivermectin use for COVID-19?
8. Why does the CDC continue to deny VAERS data showing significant numbers of adverse reactions/deaths from the COVID shots and claim the vaccine is still safe?
9. Why is the government forcing massive nationwide lockdowns knowing it doesn’t stop the spread but it does hurt the economy?
10. Why does the U.S. government continue to administer the emergency-authorized drug in the U.S. instead of the legally approved one?
No, haha. Covidism is the cult. There’s even a dress code.
Better still …. give me a single example where the ‘experts’ have been correct anywhere along the way. 2 million dead from Covid in the UK! Miami and New York City underwater within the next 10 years (30 years ago)! The scientific consensus says scientific experts don’t know what the hell they’re talking about. Now, I know I’m a ‘tinfoil hat-wearing, hardcore refusenik’ but please, tell me again how women can be men if they feel like it, and men can menstruate and give birth ……. and I’m the extremist. A$$hat!
Boy, what I would give to view a DarkHorse podcast with Professors Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying, guesting Professor Stephan Lewandowsky. Most likely it would be as intellectually brutal as the worse lopsided MMA bout you have ever seen. Without a doubt, Professor Lewandowsky would be “tapping-out” in short order.
I believe the fundamental problem with our pandemic public policy, is folks, like Professor Lewandowsky, have avoided, like the plague, one-on-one public contests with anyone having scientific stature, choosing to fight strawmen instead.