Being actively against the promotion of vaccines is by definition anti-vax.
I’m not falling for tricky anti-vax woke-washing manipulative arguments, and you don’t have to either. There are many of us out here that see what’s happening with this on social media and in forums and groups online, and we think it’s tragic and sad, and gaslighting. I know that many people probably feel afraid to speak up about this, because anti-vaxxers can be very cruel and manipulative, create a hostile environment wherever they are challenged, and it even leads sometimes to verbal abuse or violent threats or possibly inciting violence. Anti-vaxxers resort to accusation in a mirror, slander, false accusations, and DARVO: attacking someone and then claiming the person being attacked is the offender, so onlookers get confused.
Often people are so emboldened to promote anti-vax talking points and aggressively attack people debunking anti-vax or promoting vaccines because they’re being paid to do so. There’s a lot of money sloshing around for anti-vax interests.
But the more of us stand up for what’s right, and stand up for science, the lower the cost of speaking up is. So thank you to those who speak up for science and vaccines, in the face of adversity, attacks, threats. Thank you. You are not alone.