An eminent ER doctor and health policy expert has warned that President Donald Trump’s government shutdown talk about “deserving” patients mirrors a “eugenics” policy adopted by the Nazis.
Dr. Craig Spencer, who lectures on the history of health and eugenics at Brown University and is one of the country’s most influential clinician voices on emergency care, said the administration’s framing echoes America’s 1920s policy of sorting people by “worthiness… cloaked in what’s ‘acceptable’ by the state.”
No one needs any more professors or historians to tell us what we’re seeing with our own eyes
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What about Trump and his administration doesn’t echo Nazism?
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If anyone’s interested, there’s a well-written Atlantic piece from 2019, _White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots_, that covers where all this eugenics / white nationalism shit came from here. If it’s paywalled I can pull up an archive link.
Here’s an excerpt:
“In the corridors of American power, Grant’s legacy is evident. Jeff Sessions heartily praised the 1924 immigration law during an interview with Steve Bannon, Trump’s former campaign chief. Bannon regularly invokes what has become a cult text among white nationalists, the 1973 dystopian French novel The Camp of the Saints, in which the “white world” is annihilated by mass immigration. Stephen Miller, a former Senate aide to Sessions and now among the president’s top policy advisers, spent years warning from his perch in Sessions’s office that immigration from Muslim countries was a greater threat than immigration from European countries. The president’s stated preference for Scandinavian immigrants over those from Latin America or Africa, and his expressed disdain for the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship, are Grantism paraphrased.”
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That’s because the Trump administration is pretty fucking Nazi.
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this whole eugenics thing scares tf out of me, dude… Like, aren’t we past this crap already? Believe whatcha want, but I think it’s way more bout pushing forward as a society and less bout ‘perfect genes’.
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Pay wall
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“Working As Intended”
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Has Trump not seen what the average MAGA supporter looks like?
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An eminent ER doctor and health policy expert has warned that President Donald Trump’s government shutdown talk about “deserving” patients mirrors a “eugenics” policy adopted by the Nazis.
Dr. Craig Spencer, who lectures on the history of health and eugenics at Brown University and is one of the country’s most influential clinician voices on emergency care, said the administration’s framing echoes America’s 1920s policy of sorting people by “worthiness… cloaked in what’s ‘acceptable’ by the state.”
Read the full story, [here](https://www.thedailybeast.com/public-health-professor-craig-spencer-warns-donald-trumps-eugenics-shutdown-health-policy-echoes-nazism/?itm_source=parsely-api).
No one needs any more professors or historians to tell us what we’re seeing with our own eyes
What about Trump and his administration doesn’t echo Nazism?
If anyone’s interested, there’s a well-written Atlantic piece from 2019, _White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots_, that covers where all this eugenics / white nationalism shit came from here. If it’s paywalled I can pull up an archive link.
Here’s an excerpt:
“In the corridors of American power, Grant’s legacy is evident. Jeff Sessions heartily praised the 1924 immigration law during an interview with Steve Bannon, Trump’s former campaign chief. Bannon regularly invokes what has become a cult text among white nationalists, the 1973 dystopian French novel The Camp of the Saints, in which the “white world” is annihilated by mass immigration. Stephen Miller, a former Senate aide to Sessions and now among the president’s top policy advisers, spent years warning from his perch in Sessions’s office that immigration from Muslim countries was a greater threat than immigration from European countries. The president’s stated preference for Scandinavian immigrants over those from Latin America or Africa, and his expressed disdain for the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship, are Grantism paraphrased.”
That’s because the Trump administration is pretty fucking Nazi.
this whole eugenics thing scares tf out of me, dude… Like, aren’t we past this crap already? Believe whatcha want, but I think it’s way more bout pushing forward as a society and less bout ‘perfect genes’.
Pay wall
“Working As Intended”
Has Trump not seen what the average MAGA supporter looks like?
I don’t think eugenics are on their side. Lol.
So, just like all of his other policies.