By Claire Toureille For Mailonline
Published: 11:48 EDT, 16 September 2021 | Updated: 16:13 EDT, 16 September 2021
People who oppose vaccination have come up with a name of their own on social media in a new bizarre trend.
Unvaccinated Americans, who are often referred to as 'anti-vaxxers,' have started calling themselves 'pure bloods' on TikTok.
The term references J.K Rowling's Harry Potter saga, where old families in the magical realm consider themselves pure bloods and look down on those who married muggles - people who aren't born with magic powers.
Anyone with human blood is known as a half-blood, while those without magical ancestors who still have powers, like Hermione Grainger, are mudbloods.
The pure bloods were typically villains and enemies of Harry Potter, and his friends.
The term also has Nazi connotations, because Adolf Hitler believed blood purity would ensure the survival of the Aryan race, and implemented the Nuremberg Laws to avoid what he called 'blood pollution' from Jews marrying non-Jews and having children.
The fact that people who reject vaccination have started using the term has caused a stir online, with many saying those who are calling themselves 'pure blood' are missing the point.
Unvaccinated American people have started calling themselves the 'Pure Bloods' in a bizarre TikTok trend, pictured
It is unknown where the trend originated from, but several women have taken to TikTok to share similar videos on the pure blood theme.
One person said 'I want everyone to know I refuse to be referred to as "unvaccinated".
'From now on, you can call me a "Pure Blood",' they went on.
In the comments, people rallied behind the new moniker, boasting that their blood will be 'gold' in future years.
The short videos follow the same pattern: the person looked away while a text read they don't want to be referred to as 'unvaccinated,' before the text changes to 'pure blood'
However, not everyone was charmed by the use of pure blood and many pointed out the people using the terms did not understand why it was used by villainous characters in the Harry Potter saga.
'OK Draco Malfoy,' one joked, referencing Harry Potter's nemesis.
'Yeah, that "pure blood" Harry Potter reference isn't hitting like you think,' one said.
'Tell me you didn't understand the entire plot of Harry Potter without telling me you didn't understand the entire plot of Harry Potter,' one said.
One person said they didn't want to 'comply' and wanted to be called a 'pure blood' instead of getting the jab
Others were quick to point out the link with white supremacy, with one writing: 'You know who also appreciates being pure blood? Racists.'
Another commenter wrote: 'Our blood will be like gold in a few years. That doesn't sound white-supremisty [sic] at all.'
'Yes and none of you have ever had a vaccine in your lives,' pointed out another.
'This term has been used in history before... I can't quite put my finger on it but something to do with blue eyes and blonde hair,' one said, in an allusion to the Nazi pure blood ideology.
The use of the 'pure blood' terminology in Harry Potter was reminiscent of the same words used under Nazi Germany during the second World War.
The Nazi believed that the German, Aryan blood was the purest form of blood, and that Jewish or traveler blood, the blood of a gay person or of disabled person was 'sullied.'
The Nazis also believed that if you had a Jewish descendent, your blood was 'polluted.
Before the international conflict erupted in 1939, in 1935, the Nuremberg Laws were introduced, which forbade Germans to marry Jewish people in the name of keeping blood purity of the Aryan race intact.
Several women shared similar videos online, pictured, where they rejected the term 'unvaccinated
People pointed out that the people who used the term 'pure blood' didn't understand that the characters who used the word in the Harry Potter saga were villains
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