Photo via @waltermasterson/Twitter
August 3, 2021, 3:17 pm*
In another expert trolling effort by comedian and infamous Trump rally infiltrator Walter Masterson ended in one supporter of the Florida man nodding in approval as the U.S. flag-clad figure described how vaccine passports make it difficult for his family to visit the child slave mines they own in Africa.
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We assume that Masterson’s family does not truly own any slave mines in any part of the country, but the man he was talking to at a protest against the supposed scourge of “vaccine passports” seemed to entirely believe him and offered no objection to the idea of child slavery.
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Masterson even pushed it by noting that none of the child slaves appeared to be sick, so why were he and his family forced to get a bunch of vaccines just to check on their “business”?
“So my dad, he owns a bunch of mines in Africa, and so to visit those mines we had to take like five different vaccines, which is ridiculous,” says Masterson in the usual ridiculous flag regalia. “So I was like, I have to take five different vaccines to go visit our business, and then when we got to the mines, all the kids working there were like totally healthy. There was no epidemic or outbreak and everything, and it was just like, why did we have to take all these vaccines? The kids working here are all fine.”
As he says this, the man he’s talking to, who is wearing both a pro-Trump shirt and hat, nods along thoughtfully as Masterson describes his family’s involvement in child slavery. Then as he starts to speak, you think he might actually begin objecting to child slavery, but instead, he gets racist.
“Yeah, and I don’t mean to make a bad comment, but you’ve got these countries that are severely less developed, and they’re handling it infinitely better than our country!” he says.
And yes, hearing the word “Africa” and immediately leaping to “severely less developed” without doing the critical thinking necessary to realize that this underdevelopment is a direct result of colonialism and imperialist exploitation from rich, white-dominated nations is, indeed, racist. Glossing over the whole “my family owns child slaves” thing simply brings him this guy to the level of generally horrible human being.
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He’s also ignorant because part of what Masterson is also attempting to point out here is that “vaccine passports” have long been an accepted necessity for people traveling internationally. Many nations require people entering them to acquire and present proof of specific vaccines against highly infectious and/or dangerous viruses such as those that cause cholera, tuberculosis, and yellow fever in order to prevent outbreaks that could kill a whole lot of people.
The term “vaccine passports,” however, has been commonly extended to refer to any requirements such as those from private companies that customers provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19 in order to use a venue such as a stadium or requirements from workplaces that employees be vaccinated. While there may be some valid concerns about these practices and the potential separation between vaccinated and unvaccinated populations, ignoring the issue of actual child slavery when brought up to your face just to complain about this doesn’t make one look good, exactly.
Furthermore, while certain “less developed” nations initially appeared to do better in terms of case numbers than the U.S., likely due to less travel and less population density, many are currently being hit hard by the delta variant without the benefit of widespread vaccine availability.
He never even battered an eyelid when you talked about having children working in your fictitious mines in Africa.
If they can feel no disgust or shock at that, I fear there is little hope for them understanding the need to protect others by vaccination or mask wearing.— HellsBells
(@Hells_Bells_65) August 3, 2021
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*First Published: August 3, 2021, 1:56 pm
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