Fascism 101

Here's some news from today that may or may not get coverage:

RFK Jr. just said that immigration is to blame for the outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in the U.S., not him.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD

Yet again I remind everyone that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness and disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo — the thing itself.
David Roberts @volts.wtf 

This is a gift link to today's New York Times story by a British mother whose 11-year-old daughter died from measles complications 10 years after she had contracted it as an infant — at an age when children are too young to be vaccinated, and have to rely on herd immunity. 

I had no idea you could die from measles years later.

The even more messed up part of the RFK immigration B.S., at least here in Minnesota, is that there are people trying to convince our immigrant neighbors that vaccines cause autism, and it's having an effect on the vaccination rate. I don't know if they're run-of-the-mill anti-vaxxers or if they're anti-immigration, trying to use it to gin up hate against immigrants as unclean. It's so hard to tell these days. But it fits perfectly with what RFK Jr. is up to.