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THE new slogan Let’s Go Darwin has taken off to push back against the previously popular Let’s Go Brandon chant.

Suppliers are already capitalizing on the newest chant with merchandise selling on Amazon and Etsy.

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What does Let’s Go Darwin mean?

Let’s Go Darwin was created in opposition to Let’s Go Brandon, a chant that took off on October 4, 2021, at the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabamawhen Nascar fans chanted “f**k you Biden.”

A reporter misheard the chant and after saying fans were chanting “Let’s Go Brandon,” and the chant quickly rose to popularity among Trump supporters as a synonym for “f**k you Biden.”

The Let’s Go Darwin slogan is meant to represent natural selection and survival of the fittest, something Charles Darwin believed in.

Speaking about his theory on natural selection in 1857, Darwin said, “This preservation of favorable variations and the rejection of injurious variations, I call natural selection or the survival of the fittest.”

Now the expression is being used to push back against those who are not vaccinated against Covid-19, do not practice social distancing, and do not wear masks in public spaces.

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What are people saying about the new slogan?

People are responding to posts about vaccine numbers on Twitter with the Let’s Go Darwin.

Elex Michaelson, a co-anchor for Fox 11 News posted the Covid-19 statistics on December 28 and said, “Latest CDC statistics from known Covid cases.

“Unvaccinated: 6.1 deaths per 100k.

“Vaccinated: .5 deaths per 100k.

“Boosted: .1 deaths per 100k.”

The post was retweeted with the comment, “Let’s Go Darwin. Natural selection in action.”

Another person tweeted, “Darwin is credited with the ‘theory of natural selection.’ Let’s Go Darwin is a response to the Let’s Go Brandon anti-vax, anti-mask crowd.”

The majority of tweets are responding to those who remain unvaccinated with another person tweeting a meme that says, “A mask and a shot. No one’s asking you to storm the beaches at Normandy.”

What is natural selection?

In 1857, Charles Darwin coined the phrase “natural selection,” stating a person’s decisions and genetic traits determine whether they are more likely to survive and reproduce.

In his book, The Descent of Man (1871), Darwin says, “One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live, and the weakest die.”

He says if a person adapts to their environment and passes that trait down to their children or the younger generation it will allow future generations to live longer, more fulfilling lives.

He adds, “I have confined myself to science … It has often and confidently been asserted, that man’s origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”