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Jilly_in_VA

(9,975 posts)
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 11:34 AM Sep 2021

Unvaccinated TikTokers Are Calling Themselves 'Purebloods'

The term “pureblood” doesn’t exactly have the best connotations. But now unvaccinated people on TikTok are, er, trying to reclaim the term as a way to tout their “superiority” over their jabbed fellow citizens.

The phrase was popularized by J.K. Rowling’s villain Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter series as a way to distinguish between those with “pure” wizard ancestry and everyone else, drawing parallels with the Nazi doctrine of the “master race.” As a concept, basically, it’s been used to justify some of the worst crimes against humanity in history.

The new “pureblood” trend seems to have gotten a big boost from conservative TikToker influencer Lyndsey Marie in a post shared last week replete with hashtags like #harrypotter, #pureblood, and #unvaccinated.

“From now on, I refuse to be referred to as ‘unvaccinated,’” she declared. “I want everyone to now call me Pureblood.”
The video has since racked up nearly 250,000 views and Lyndsey Marie is now promising her followers that a line of “pureblood” merch (which will feature an image of a lion and the text, “PUREBLOOD; Unmasked, Unvaxxed, Unafraid.”)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kvywd/unvaccinated-tiktok-purebloods-covid
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They should take note of some other unvaxxed loudmouths who have recently met Sister Death.

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Unvaccinated TikTokers Are Calling Themselves 'Purebloods' (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Sep 2021 OP
Thing is... EYESORE 9001 Sep 2021 #1
OK. tanyev Sep 2021 #2
Vocal Minority Johnny2X2X Sep 2021 #3
Completely agree. An empty barrel makes all the noise OnDoutside Sep 2021 #8
Message auto-removed Name removed Sep 2021 #4
That term has been associated with bigotry for at least 6 centuries: highplainsdem Sep 2021 #5
The article does point out Jilly_in_VA Sep 2021 #10
COVID calls them 'all-you-can-eat breakfast' C_U_L8R Sep 2021 #6
Ha!!! +++ Leghorn21 Sep 2021 #15
I won't miss them. n/t FSogol Sep 2021 #27
Let's call them what they are: Ignorant, selfish fuckheads. (nt) Paladin Sep 2021 #7
Future grave filler material n/t Jilly_in_VA Sep 2021 #11
How very Deatheater of them obamanut2012 Sep 2021 #9
Yes, in more ways than one Leith Sep 2021 #21
Purely devoid of protective COVID antibodies Zambero Sep 2021 #12
How about we just call them idiots... Wounded Bear Sep 2021 #13
"pureblood" sounds like a snack for vampires DBoon Sep 2021 #14
Doozy! ananda Sep 2021 #34
I want to see an episode of "What We Do in the Shadows" with this DBoon Sep 2021 #37
That's ok. I call them dumbfucks. mnhtnbb Sep 2021 #16
I wonder how many "purebloods" will end up meeting Herman Cain. Crunchy Frog Sep 2021 #17
A friend if mine has one in her class. redstatebluegirl Sep 2021 #18
The closest to being "purebloods" are those of us who are ARPad95 Sep 2021 #19
My mom had o blood I_UndergroundPanther Sep 2021 #20
Did your mother ever mention receiving RhoGAM during pregnancy and after delivery? ARPad95 Sep 2021 #23
I dont know,she never really talked about her births I_UndergroundPanther Sep 2021 #26
You were born only 9 weeks after conception? And made Maru Kitteh Sep 2021 #28
I dunno mom is who said it I_UndergroundPanther Sep 2021 #30
Human gestation is 40 weeks. 6months equals 31 weeks. Unless Maru Kitteh Sep 2021 #36
Do you mean you were born 3 months early? ARPad95 Sep 2021 #29
I went to I_UndergroundPanther Sep 2021 #31
I think there was a lot of hidden and unauthorized "experimentation" going on by doctors back then. ARPad95 Sep 2021 #32
Not insulin dependent thankfully I_UndergroundPanther Sep 2021 #35
They've been using the term on the reich-wing sites for several weeks now. SeattleVet Sep 2021 #22
Nazi eugenics making a comeback? moondust Sep 2021 #24
Okay, Doomers. meadowlander Sep 2021 #25
They are getting dragged all over TikTok ismnotwasm Sep 2021 #33
Another term comes readily to mind jmowreader Sep 2021 #38
I prefer to call them "Looney Tunes" FakeNoose Sep 2021 #39

Johnny2X2X

(19,066 posts)
3. Vocal Minority
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 11:39 AM
Sep 2021

Adults in the US are now 76% vaccinated with at least 1 shot, so this vocal minority that gets all the attention is less than 1 in 4 adults.

I don't think this gets focused on enough, the anti Covid vaxxers are a shrinking minority, they're extremists. The coverage of them makes it sound like the country is split 50-50 on Covid vaccines, it's not, it's 76-24 and that disparity is growing everyday.

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Jilly_in_VA

(9,975 posts)
10. The article does point out
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 11:49 AM
Sep 2021

that the term is associated with bigotry. I suspect that a lot of these young idiots are more than a little neo-nazi themselves.
And I have a friend named Lindsey Marie (note difference in spelling!) with whom I differ politically, but a) she is not on social media, being very shy and a private person in the extreme, and b) she is most definitely NOT batshit crazy! I think she would object to this person "appropriating her name" even though it's spelled differently.

Leith

(7,809 posts)
21. Yes, in more ways than one
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 02:52 PM
Sep 2021

The deatheaters were modeled on the nazis. Pretty much anything that was evil about the nazis and deatheaters can be said about anti-vaxxers.

Funny thing to want to associate oneself with. How long will it take them to realize that the character Stormfront from the Amazon Prime TV show The Boys is all that they long to follow?

DBoon

(22,366 posts)
37. I want to see an episode of "What We Do in the Shadows" with this
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 10:33 PM
Sep 2021

"Pureblood - for a quick delicious snack"

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
18. A friend if mine has one in her class.
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 01:07 PM
Sep 2021

She has Lupus and begged the students to vaccinate and mask up. This young woman stood up and said she refused, she was a prue blood. I am at a loss, these antivaxers are nuts.

ARPad95

(1,671 posts)
19. The closest to being "purebloods" are those of us who are
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 01:28 PM
Sep 2021

blood type O and Rh negative as we are the universal blood donors. Anyone can receive our blood no matter their blood type. The irony is that we can only receive O Rh negative blood.

If we are also C(yto)M(egalo)V(irus) negative, we are considered Heroes for Babies because our blood can be given to the tiniest patients.

https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/how-to-donate/types-of-blood-donations/whole-blood-donation/helpbabies.html

Only 2% of the world's population is O Rh neg AND CMV neg.

Therefore, these self-described "purebloods" are almost certainly pure BSers!


P.S. This O neg CMV neg "pureblood" is 100% vaccinated.

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,470 posts)
20. My mom had o blood
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 02:48 PM
Sep 2021

Cant remember if its
positive or negative
I got o too I think

Didn't know it was o that is the universal donor blood type. I knew about the rh negative tho.

ARPad95

(1,671 posts)
23. Did your mother ever mention receiving RhoGAM during pregnancy and after delivery?
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 04:00 PM
Sep 2021

If a woman is Rh negative and her partner is Rh positive, it could cause problems with future pregnancies if her 1st pregnancy is with Rh positive fetus unless she receives injections of RhoGAM. RhoGAM prevents her from producing antibodies to Rh positive blood. Prior to RhoGAM being available, the Rh positive babies of Rh negative mothers would suffer hemolytic disease of the newborn. The mother's immune system would recognize the baby's blood as foreign and destroy the baby's red blood cells.

https://www.chop.edu/conditions-diseases/hemolytic-disease-newborn





I_UndergroundPanther

(12,470 posts)
26. I dont know,she never really talked about her births
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 07:40 PM
Sep 2021

She told me she almost died and had an out of body experince when I was born also I was born 6 months early and was in an incubator for over a month.

She never told us what drugs or whatever else she was injected with birth wise. Execpt she told me she was taking testosterone before she knew she was pregant to stop her milk production after my sister was like 2 years old.

I often wonder if the testosterone she was taking had some part in me being transgendered.

But I dont know if she needed RohGAM or not. She is however type O.

Maru Kitteh

(28,340 posts)
28. You were born only 9 weeks after conception? And made
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 08:20 PM
Sep 2021

it out of the NICU in just one month?

That's remarkable.




Jus' kiddin' with ya. Pretty sure you meant 6 weeks.


I_UndergroundPanther

(12,470 posts)
30. I dunno mom is who said it
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 08:33 PM
Sep 2021

Maybe she mixed up the numbers but I was in an incubater for over a month. I do know that.

Maru Kitteh

(28,340 posts)
36. Human gestation is 40 weeks. 6months equals 31 weeks. Unless
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 09:17 PM
Sep 2021

Your baby photos look like this:



It's a safe bet you were born sometime later.

ARPad95

(1,671 posts)
29. Do you mean you were born 3 months early?
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 08:21 PM
Sep 2021

I think it's possible the testosterone your mother was given crossed the placenta during her 1st trimester with you and caused the natural testosterone/androgenic hormones production that should have happened to shut down or go awry.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279001/

Genital sex differentiation involves a series of events whereby the sexually indifferent embryo progressively acquires male or female characteristics in the gonads, genital tract and external genitalia. Sex development consists of several sequential stages. Genetic sex, as determined by the chromosome constitution, drives the primitive gonad to differentiate into a testis or an ovary. Subsequently, internal and external genitalia will follow the male pathway in the presence of specific testicular hormones, or the female pathway in their absence. Since the presence of the fetal testis plays a determining role in the differentiation of the reproductive tract, the term "sex determination" has been coined to designate the differentiation of the gonad during early fetal development.


I_UndergroundPanther

(12,470 posts)
31. I went to
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 08:43 PM
Sep 2021

Get an exam down there at a new gblt freindly place and the gyn asked if I had genital mutilation.
I wonder because
It was the 60s when I was born.
Back then they'd alter ambiguous genetalia to look female or male
Regardless of what the baby would later identify as.

And when I took testosterone I didnt grow much down there
My endro didnt know why because i should have had changes.

I don't take T anymore
because Im diabetic.

All my internal and external parts are gone. So T had very little estrogen to hinder its effects.
Was on T for over 5 years.

But on the good side My beard is beautiful and growing however. I have a naturally forked goatee .

ARPad95

(1,671 posts)
32. I think there was a lot of hidden and unauthorized "experimentation" going on by doctors back then.
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 08:57 PM
Sep 2021

It seems like you've been through a lot and it's very unfortunate you will not be able to have your questions answered definitively. I'm one of those "I need to know what happened and why" type of persons. It would drive me crazy not to have answers.

Are you an insulin dependent diabetic?


I_UndergroundPanther

(12,470 posts)
35. Not insulin dependent thankfully
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 09:08 PM
Sep 2021

I take metformin and glimperide.
Eat a keto diet.

I am a need to know and why type like you are. yes it drives me nuts and leads me to more questions.Its a mystery but I hope one day to find the truth.

SeattleVet

(5,477 posts)
22. They've been using the term on the reich-wing sites for several weeks now.
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 03:56 PM
Sep 2021

I've seen it used quite a bit over in freeperville.

These are the folks that claim they will demand blood from the unvaccinated if they need a transfusion. Yeah, good luck with that.

ismnotwasm

(41,984 posts)
33. They are getting dragged all over TikTok
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 08:57 PM
Sep 2021

Mostly over the Harry Potter angle. It’s also a deliberate “owning the libs” move which is backfiring in a spectacular and satisfying way.

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