True words are not beautiful. Beautiful words are not true.
Lao Tzu
As I have stated numerous times, if you are "safe-space sensitive" the Symposium is not a space for you. The conversation held today will make you uncomfortable, will challenge your worldview, and you must open yourself to being wrong.
Now, let me begin by making a bold claim :
If vaccinations are pressured on a population in order to have privileges and basic rights, then Harvey Weinstein should be set free because he is innocent.
Why would I say that? Am I trying to be provocative?
No. Rather, I think we need to stop politicising everything and open ourselves to nuanced discussions.
Let's define consent.
Consent : To give assent or approval.
Now, let's define rape. I'll use the most general definition - which also encompasses the sexual act.
Rape : An act or instance of robbing or despoiling or carrying away a person by force.
Allow me to be fully transparent here : I am not at all making light of this situation. Several people in my life are survivors of sexual assault, thus, to make light of their tragedy for the sake of an argument is a line that I wouldn't callously cross.
Yet, difficult discussions also require that I use words that will not always be beautiful.
I am flabbergasted and enraged that pain has become so politicised that it's virtually impossible to have a nuanced discussion if you either, refuse to play the Oppression Olympics, and/or are not considered part of the "in-group".
That's bullshit.
The group that an individual has been placed in, or the party they have committed to, plays no role whatsoever in whether they can verbalize their grievances.
Let me underline this in neon :
There is absolutely NO SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE that proves that getting the vaccine prevents transmission.
Thus, my decision to not get vaccinated is a personal one. Therefore, no person, authority, state, nor nation has any right to infringe upon my personal liberties.
For a virus with a 99% survival rate, where most people are either asymptomatic, or will at worst, experience this as the common flu, I have the right to personally refuse to take the vaccine - especially after reading the adverse reactions.
We've come to a place of such hysteria and irrationality, that people cling to political dogma and lose sight of humane principles. Biden excuses the concentration camps in China as being "different norms", all the while Germany reopens concentration camps of their own, and individual human rights disappear for the sake of pharmaceutical companies and companies who are not held liable for any damages from their vaccines.
If we are to remove medical consent, what will we allow next?
Should we release Weinstein and Cosby as innocent, law-abiding citizens?
Are we to argue that consent no longer plays a role and the interests of society must come first? If so, then please don't be surprised when they begin turning on the gas and the bodies pile in the concentration camps.
The torture has already begun in China and Germany seems prepared to follow suit.
What is "society" and why must I suffer, and not YOU or other members of “society”, in order for these aims to be accomplished?
What is a society that holds no regard for individual liberty?
I'll stop my rant here.
I had a conversation with a friend of mine recently where she said, "I have to do it order to get what I want", and that sounded eerily of the stories of the survivors that I know and I felt I needed to voice my opinion.
If you want to be vaccinated, then the door is wide open. But no one else should be guilted, shamed, or pressured to do the same without CONCRETE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE.
My decisions will not rest on the fickle feelings of a fearful society.
Lastly, the definition of herd immunity was conveniently changed before this "pandemic". Don't be afraid to trust your immune system.
Respectfully,
Kibbs