Posted on 11/27/2021 1:24:33 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
… As New Zealand shifts to a policy of “living with the virus,” residents accustomed to living virtually Covid-free for most of the pandemic are being confronted by rising case numbers and widening vaccine mandates. Opposition to vaccination as well as frustration with ongoing pandemic restrictions is fueling a small but vocal protest movement inspired in part by American politics.
In a working paper published in November, a team of researchers in New Zealand said there had been a “sharp increase in the popularity and intensity” of disinformation around Covid-19 since August.
The researchers said the disinformation was “being used as a kind of Trojan horse” to coax New Zealanders from vaccine hesitancy to vaccine resistance, and then to the embrace of far-right ideologies like white supremacy and extreme misogyny. Some of the most extreme content, they said, comes from overseas, particularly Australia and the United States.
At anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine protests in cities like Wellington and Christchurch, “Make America Great Again” hats and flags from the QAnon conspiracy theory movement are visible among the crowds. Sam Brett, a student at the University of Canterbury who attended recent protests for his doctoral research, said they felt like a “miniature, New Zealand version of a Trump rally.”
The protests often feature “powerful, charismatic speakers,” Brett said, who cast the government as “maliciously trying to take away people’s rights.”
Paul Buchanan, an Auckland-based security analyst and former consultant to U.S. intelligence services, said he was concerned by the “importation of U.S.-style populist rhetoric” into New Zealand’s anti-vaccination movement, characterizing it as “tinged with violence and vulgar, dehumanizing disrespect for political and social opponents.”
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Just wait until they find out what “Let’s go, Brandon” means.
“The researchers said the disinformation was “being used as a kind of Trojan horse” to coax New Zealanders from vaccine hesitancy to vaccine resistance, and then to the embrace of far-right ideologies like white supremacy and extreme misogyny. Some of the most extreme content, they said, comes from overseas, particularly Australia and the United States.”
Nothing bogus about that research.
Naturally, no example of “misinformation” is cited.
Do people actually believe this stuff?
Revolution in the air
BS, I think they are smelling the rat.
“American vaccine misinformation and extremism is infiltrating New Zealand”
LOL
By now, if you haven’t noticed that the government of New
Zealand has a corner on the misinformation market in that
country, you should immediately notify your next of kin,
before you keel over.
Hilarious! The truth sux!
Executive Mandates are Extremism.
This idea that certain people have that any disagreement with their view is “ misinformation “ is going to precipitate one hell of a bloody war. This transcends arrogance. It is god-hood.
If you don’t take the vaccine, next step is wife beating, then gassing Jews...
Ad hominem as a news story
Yeah, they're so white supremacist that they're borrowing Maori culture. I'm afraid that the author is a very confused individual who created an entire article out of poorly packaged cliches and unsupported accusations. There's nothing here other than an equally confused lady who had somebody talk mean to her and is certain that they're anti-vaxxers and vandals. Who needs evidence?
I don’t think its U.S. style at all, I’m pretty sure what we have here is a well-funded international group, because everywhere it crops up, its the same thing. I have to wonder, who wants American and Western European people to be dead? (Since these seem to be the populations in which these things are cropping up). It might not be a racial thing, it might be an anti-freedom thing.
Wouldn’t doubt the author is a Communist Chinese plant given the over-the-top usage of propaganda in this article.
I think a huge amount of this is propaganda being spread by the Chinese government. And they are very good at it - they manage to get others to pass it on.
It’s not just vaccine stuff as well - I’m very concerned that a lot of Americans have apparently been convinced Australia has turned into some sort of fascist dictatorship - it hasn’t.
How many lies and inconsistencies do they think it takes before they just aren’t believed anymore? Then they blame white supremicists and misogynists! Really?
Somebody is trying to hard to shill for Jacinda Hitler and her henchmen.
What a load of shit...
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