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October 4, 2021, 2:11 pm
Anti-vaxxers and Trump fans have recently taken to evoking comedy legend George Carlin, who died in 2008, as a supporter of their unsupported conspiracy theories, claiming that the dead man would have refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine because he had expressed a lack of trust in the government. It got so bad that his name began trending on Twitter, catching the attention of his surviving daughter, Kelly.
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When she asked about it and found out it was because of anti-vaxxers and MAGA folks, she asserted that they are in fact wrong and that Carlin was pro-science, anti-conservative, and would have taken “all” the vaccines if he had been alive to endure the coronavirus pandemic.
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“Dear #MAGA My father was pro-science,” wrote Kelly Carlin. “He would have taken the vaccine, all of them. He hated conservatives & privileged white male businessmen, and was pro-choice. He would not have nice things to say about you. Go appropriate someone else’s comedy.”
In spite of this statement by one of Carlin’s closest living relatives, people who never even met the man insisted on doubling down on their wrongness, telling his own daughter what her dead father would have thought in an objectively offensive act of pure arrogance. Multiple Trump fans brought up a specific quote from one of Carlin’s famous comedy routines in which he states that he forms his own opinions and doesn’t trust what the government or the news media says.
“My first rule: I don’t believe anything the government tells me … and I don’t take very seriously the media or the press in this country,” the quote reads.
What this person who misspelled Kool-Aid left out was the rest of that routine, which harshly criticizes U.S. military policy and war in general as “a lot of p—k-waving” and for only “bombing brown people.” His distrust of the media, as he explains during his bit, is largely due to how they covered the Gulf War without mentioning a whole lot of the war crimes and human rights violations committed by the U.S. government during this period.
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While many people on the political left also distrust the government as many on the right do, they do trust science and the general consensus of medical experts all over the world that says the COVID-19 vaccines are very safe and do not produce more adverse reactions than any other vaccine. Carlin might also trust the self-reports of the billions of people around the world who have received the vaccine without dying or finding their reproductive organs swollen over the conspiracy theories of some thousands of terminally online yelling people.
Kelly Carlin, to her credit, has moved on from the Trump fans misusing her father’s name and is currently busy cheering on the technical issues bringing down Facebook, Instagram, and related social media platforms. Other Carlin fans have, of course, stepped in to roast the people trying to tell her what her own dead dad would think over the open flames of their terrible ideas.
Are you really trying to “actually” his daughter?
— Greta (@Georgie_Roscoe) October 4, 2021
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*First Published: October 4, 2021, 2:11 pm
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