Public Health Professor Warns Trump’s ‘Eugenics’ Policy Echoes Nazism

https://www.thedailybeast.com/public-health-professor-craig-spencer-warns-donald-trumps-eugenics-shutdown-health-policy-echoes-nazism/?itm_source=parsely-api

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  1. 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).

  2. No one needs any more professors or historians to tell us what we’re seeing with our own eyes

  3. What about Trump and his administration doesn’t echo Nazism?

  4. 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.”

  5. That’s because the Trump administration is pretty fucking Nazi.

  6. 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’.

  8. Has Trump not seen what the average MAGA supporter looks like?

    I don’t think eugenics are on their side. Lol.

  10. …No shit? This whole administration kicked off with a nazi salute.

  11. He can’t keep getting away with this why hasn’t anybody stood up to him yet they are all just sitting back and watching him destroy this country

  13. You know, like his concentration camps. And his secret police. And his cabinet full of self-confessed Neo-Nazis. And his frequent allusions to Mein Kamf.

    At some point you’ve just gotta call it. There’s no reason to keep beating around the bush on these things.

  14. Trump: billionaire pedophile nazi who sells autographed USA bibles online.

    This is what MAGA wanted.

  15. I think we’re doing this country a disservice by not acknowledging the history of eugenics in this country in these conversations. Everybody is all “Nazis!!!”, completely ignoring our genocidal actions in the past. This country refuses to come to grips with it’s greatest failures, which is why we keep making the same mistakes.

  18. Literally everything this clown does, echoes nazi policy. The military needs to arrest all of them immediately. Charge them with the highest form of treason.

  19. I hope all the people that say “you shouldn’t call them Nazis, it takes all the meaning away from the word” feel real good about themselves now.

  20. It’s eugenics.

    Auto-eugenics.

    We’re suffering from a horrible alliance.

    – Religious nuts think bad health happens to bad people.

    – Science morons like RFK think vaccines are a scam.

    – Billionaires want public health money diverted to themselves.

    – Nazis want to eliminate the old and the weak.

    Straight, white, Christian, men along with just enough women to breed with them are all the elite need to staff their industry and wars.

  21. the 1% consume 99% of our resources

    if they weren’t so greedy there would be no problem giving everyone a happy life

  26. Eugenics and ableism are cornerstones of fascism. 45 was just a vengeful dumbass in the beginning of the pandemic but 46 threw vulnerable people under the bus for the sake of the economy. Once the “good guys” normalize bad shit, we were fucking toast. Also, sars2 is neuroinvasive and affects the part of your brain that controls empathy and impulse control. Most people are getting infected 1-2x per year. Doesn’t look good, yo.

  27. I honestly wonder how stupid everyone is.

    As a regular nobody minding my own business, I literally thought Trump as President was funny for all of two weeks until I heard all of the racist shit he had said and done – in 2015 or 2016.

    20fucking25 and people are still wondering if the Nazi similarities are cause for concern or headlines of someone saying that maybe the eugenics stuff is maybe maxi stuff.

    Like. What the fuck.

    How stupid is this fucking country?

  28. What about this administration’s policies DOESN’T echo nazism?

  32. Thats the eugenics echo chamber we didnt ask for – Trump’s admin channeling 1920s ‘betters’ while firing health experts. Professor’s warning’s spot on, its not ‘policy’, its playbook from the Third Reich lite, with a MAGA filter.

  33. Having a neck flap like some kind of undiscovered lizard is disqualifying.

  34. You can stop warning, we know he’s a nazi. It’s too late for worrying, we now need to fix the problem, ideally by putting him and his goons in prison where they.

  35. One thing we know for sure now. We can afford to feed children and provide healthcare for everyone. If we can give Brazil $40 billion and bankroll ICE, and remodel the White House, and all the other things that Trump has funded in just 10 months, we could be helping those that need it.

  36. The blatant Nazism in the Republican Party echoes Nazism.

  37. Eugenics inspired the nazis. Eugenics was an American-based movement.

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