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Don't conflate 'anti-vax' with 'anti-vax-mandate'. The two positions have entirely different scientific and moral bases. I would think the second group is also much larger.

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They've changed the definition to obfuscate this very important point.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-vaxxer

>Definition of anti-vaxxer

>: a person who opposes the use of vaccines or regulations mandating vaccination

Thats a lie.

It's been the definition since at least 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181125060933/https://www.merri...

Probably they made an assumption after the definition of "vaccine" was changed on there earlier this year.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210108224740/https://www.merri...

vs.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vaccine

It's a lie? You literally pointed out that they changed it in 2018. Thank you for proving my point.

You claimed that "THEY" changed the definition, based on a dictionary. This would imply that the definition was changed during covid to include "mandate sceptics". The link shows that in 2018 it included "[...] laws that mandate vaccination". The only real difference is that the former definition uses the word "laws" and the current one "regulation". While the two words are not interchangeable, the definition on merriam-webster includes laws as a type of regulations.

Calling this a meaningful change of its definition that "THEY" did is nothing more than pedantic anti-vaxx bullshit.

Well, THEY have also changed the definition of "vaccine" and "pandemic" a long time ago. Go look it up.

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