I normally try to avoid news stories like this, as reading them makes me feel like I'm fueling the fire of the people they chronicle, but I nonetheless chose to read this article, and I found this...
I normally try to avoid news stories like this, as reading them makes me feel like I'm fueling the fire of the people they chronicle, but I nonetheless chose to read this article, and I found this sequence particularly telling:
“If you allow one more shot in one more person’s body, you yourself will be executed in violation of the Nuremberg Code,” he said as he pointed to a Walmart employee standing nearby. “We don’t want that to happen to any of you guys at all. We love you guys. We want to keep you safe.”
About 10 minutes after confronting the Walmart employee, who mostly remained silent, Key switched his tune. He was actually there to get the vaccine, he said.
“Why can’t I get my vaccine? I’m here to get my vaccine,” he said.
“She just refused me my vaccine,” he said to the officer, referring to the female employee. “What if I die tonight and I get covid because I didn’t get my vaccine?”
This is textbook abuser behavior. We have:
A threat made with "love" as the justification
Rapid changes in behavior and communication of desires/intentions for the purposes of destabilization
I point this out simply because it's easy to look at this person and simply judge them as attention-seeking or mostly harmless, but this is calculated malice. Furthermore, these tactics are not specific to COVID or vaccines -- those just happen to be the basis on which this person levied their abuse.
The worst part is that he walks away from this without penalty, while those pharmacists have to live under the shadows of his threats and destabilization, which likely persist far beyond that specific incident (and will be even worse if intermittently reinforced by others, as they quite possibly are).
Actually, it reminded me of stand-over tactics, like the stereotypical old-time gangsters: "This is a lovely shop you've got here. It'd be a shame if anything happened to it..."
This is textbook abuser behavior. We have:
Actually, it reminded me of stand-over tactics, like the stereotypical old-time gangsters: "This is a lovely shop you've got here. It'd be a shame if anything happened to it..."
I normally try to avoid news stories like this, as reading them makes me feel like I'm fueling the fire of the people they chronicle, but I nonetheless chose to read this article, and I found this sequence particularly telling:
This is textbook abuser behavior. We have:
I point this out simply because it's easy to look at this person and simply judge them as attention-seeking or mostly harmless, but this is calculated malice. Furthermore, these tactics are not specific to COVID or vaccines -- those just happen to be the basis on which this person levied their abuse.
The worst part is that he walks away from this without penalty, while those pharmacists have to live under the shadows of his threats and destabilization, which likely persist far beyond that specific incident (and will be even worse if intermittently reinforced by others, as they quite possibly are).
Actually, it reminded me of stand-over tactics, like the stereotypical old-time gangsters: "This is a lovely shop you've got here. It'd be a shame if anything happened to it..."