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April 27, 2021 09:22 AM UTC

Fighting For White People With Lauren Boebert

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  • by: Colorado Pols

As readers know, Rep. Lauren Boebert fires off enough objectionable statements in the average day that if we wanted to, we could spend all our time every day doing nothing but writing blog posts where we perform the prosaic equivalent of picking our jaws up off the floor. Rather than get caught up in this Donald Trump-inspired vicious cycle in which bad behavior is rewarded with constant attention, we ignore a lot of stuff from Boebert that would under most other circumstances warrant outrage.

Lauren Boebert with a group of white people.

The story of this particular Tweet from last weekend is worth making an exception to the rule. This is Rep. Boebert asserting that “denying vaccine access to White people doesn’t make you woke, it makes you racist.” Boebert doesn’t supply any context for this statement to her 600,000 Twitter followers, which as Raw Story reports led to some confusion:

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) kicked off her morning by claiming that “White people” are being denied access to the COVID-19 vaccine that had critics of the controversial lawmaker scratching their heads wondering what she was tweeting about…

With reports coming in that vaccine providers are not seeing as many people coming in for their shots as was hoped as it becomes readily available, commenters on Twitter accused Boebert of trying to create a racial controversy where none exists.

As it turns out, and you could have predicted, there is a story circulating on right-wing media that Boebert appears to be basing this on, including in the Phil Anschutz-owned Washington Examiner, about a clinic in Seattle Washington called the African American Reach and Teach Health Ministry (AARTH):

The African American Reach and Teach Health Ministry is a vaccine provider that allows users to sign up for the shot through a digital scheduler. People who use the site for appointments at the Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center on May 1 are prompted to answer whether they are a person of color or white.

Minority users can sign up for an appointment if there’s an available slot. White users are placed on a standby list, and AARTH says it will contact them if a spot becomes available.

What this is, of course, is a nonprofit specifically devoted to serving the African-American community–whose vaccination rates for COVID-19 are dramatically lower than the white population. They are operating under the (correct) assumption that white people with privilege and mobility and time for “vaccine hunting” can get vaccinated everywhere, but disadvantaged communities need outreach campaigns targeted directly at them.

In short, this is a completely fake controversy engineered to foment baseless race resentment. In Washington state just like here in Colorado, the question increasingly is not the availability of vaccines but hesitancy to take them. White political conservatives are some of the most reluctant despite no physical barriers to access. And we’ll say it: white people trying to get a vaccine appointment from the African American Reach and Teach Health Ministry have enough alternative options that they are almost certainly trolling for publicity.

In Rep. Boebert’s case, it’s even worse since she has said she has no need to personally get vaccinated–meaning her interest is just about carrying the torch for the supposedly downtrodden white race. Along with Boebert unapologetically pushing “white replacement” conspiracy theories regarding immigration policy, it’s another disturbing indicator of what’s really going on inside her head.

Racist stuff.

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27 thoughts on “Fighting For White People With Lauren Boebert”

  1. She (they) are grasping at any opportunity to keep their victimhood intact and their outrage and resentment in high gear. There is no filter.

    1. If Q-bie is suggesting that discouraging the melanin-challenged from getting vaccinated is racist, then perhaps the bulk of TtumpenGOPers might just be at least a little bit, ummm, racist??

      Every time Bobie opens her spout, it’s like she’s obsessively driven to demonstrate just how much of a racist and an ignoramus she is . . . 

      Is it racist that god restricted the amount of functioning gray matter to so many of Bobie’s white ilk??? (Asking for a Moderatus . . .)

      1. Makes one wish there was a way to create( for redistricting purposes) a community of interest around the I-70 corridor from Jefferson to Mesa County, splitting CD-3 and making sure this idiot never returns to the People’s House. 

  2. The Southern Ute Indian Tribe vaccinated me 4 weeks ago in an act I would say of complete kindness. I am not Native American, but my son is a tribal member and mentioned that I wasn't, and asked on my behalf and you know what the response was ?  " Sure, send your dad on down !"  Super people. I am so damn thankful for that, and it was a happy chapter in this awful pandemic.

    So yeah, that happened, and in Pew Pew's district to boot. My own experience with folks denying vaccines to us white people is quite the opposite of this garbage narrative. Cheers polsters.

     

    1. That is really cool. Thanks for sharing your real experience against Boebert's bullshit.

      Boebert only cares about vaccinations when she can score unrelated racist political points. She's a societal waste product.

    3. Good news from the Navajo Nation front today: zero new cases of COVID and zero deaths!

  3. In other words, White Power Barbie is at it again. It’s exhausting to try to piece together whatever she’s shitposting about at any given time. What a sad life it must be to clearly draw your only source of energy and satisfaction from angry comments.

  4. They are operating under the (correct) assumption that white people with privilege and mobility and time for “vaccine hunting” can get vaccinated everywhere, but disadvantaged communities need outreach campaigns targeted directly at them.

    Yep.  Which is exactly why Q-bie is throwing this particular Tweetrum — she wants this program, and any like it, shut down, probably attacked.  

    She isn’t “fighting for white people”, she’s “fighting for keeping non-whites disadvantaged.”

    Same as it ever was . . . 

      1. I also strongly considered "twitrum," but chose the medium as the message in this case.

        . . . Saving the other now for the next Fluffy rant.

  5. Qbz might be underestimating the number of her constituents who believe that Jews weaponized vaccines for use in their covert war of extermination against the white race.

    1. Be careful what you wish for barnes! 

      Is the U.S. Doing Enough to Address the Meat Industry’s Role in Antibiotic Resistance?

      In response, in January, a coalition of organizations including the NRDC issued a call for “urgent action” from the incoming Biden administration, “to act on the antibiotic resistance crisis as swiftly as it will surely act on the COVID-19 crisis” by setting a national target to reduce medically important antibiotic use in livestock and establishing a system to track it.

      The call turns up the flame on an issue that’s been simmering for years, with health experts and agencies warning that the overuse of antibiotics in agriculture is a leading cause of resistant bacteria. (For the purposes of this story, all references to “antibiotics” are to “medically important antibiotics” only.)

    2. davebarnes

      Well, you can at least get something, if not a cheeseburger … offers at Krispy Kreme, Budweiser, White Castle, Sam Adams (maybe — “Samuel Adams said if you post your vaccination sticker or bandage, they’ll send you $7 through the Cash App for a beer at your favorite bar through its #ShotForSam vaccine incentive program. The company said the offer is for the first 10,000 people to participate by May 15 or while supplies last.”)

       

       

        1. What's wrong with White Castles? I could put away a dozen of those, in one sitting, when I was in high school. Also never heard of anyone getting sick off them, unlike the pork sliders from Two Gun Tootsie's grill in Rifle.

          White Castles are available in King Soopers in the frozen foods department, and probably also at City Market.

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