A series of tweets on economic conservatism, eugenics, bioethics and the threats to marginalised people from Donald Trump and the Republican Congress.
There’s something familiar about the Trump ‘Taxpayer First’ budget. (CW: Nazis/Holocaust/disablism) pic.twitter.com/dV7PRW39JQ
— Festive Finn ❄️🎄 (@phineasfrogg) 23 May 2017
Steuerzahler Zuerst = Taxpayers First. Das neue Budget der Republikanischen Partei = the Republican Party’s new budget.
— Festive Finn ❄️🎄 (@phineasfrogg) 23 May 2017
I had to look up ‘taxpayer’ but I think I have everything else right.
— Festive Finn ❄️🎄 (@phineasfrogg) 23 May 2017
By the way, I don’t throw out the Nazi card lightly. GOP members are pushing modern eugenics. I’d recommend reading tweets/articles by…
— Festive Finn ❄️🎄 (@phineasfrogg) 23 May 2017
@slooterman, @smneumeier (who gave me the idea to make this graphic!), @erabrand, amongst others.
— Festive Finn ❄️🎄 (@phineasfrogg) 23 May 2017
I can’t forget that @autistichoya has also talked repeatedly about eugenics and bioethics.
— Festive Finn ❄️🎄 (@phineasfrogg) 23 May 2017
Trumpcare and the trans military ban are being defended with the same kinds of arguments: some lives cost too much.
— Festive Finn ❄️🎄 (@phineasfrogg) 27 July 2017
These are the arguments far-right governments use to devalue the lives of people they see as inconvenient, burdensome or threatening.
— Festive Finn ❄️🎄 (@phineasfrogg) 27 July 2017
Disabled people challenge the idea of the strong, worthy Übermensch. Trans people threaten their strict conceptualisations of gender.
— Festive Finn ❄️🎄 (@phineasfrogg) 27 July 2017
If they thought you were worthy of existing, they wouldn’t quibble so much about the costs.
— Festive Finn ❄️🎄 (@phineasfrogg) 27 July 2017
(CW) The Nazis talked about the cost of disabled people, long before they actually killed people via the T-4 programme or the Holocaust.
— Festive Finn ❄️🎄 (@phineasfrogg) 27 July 2017
Am I saying Trump and co. are identical to Hitler? That remains to be seen. But what I’ve seen is really fucking ominous.
— Festive Finn ❄️🎄 (@phineasfrogg) 27 July 2017
And you don’t even need a Hitler comparison, though it’s the one most people will recognise. Hitler got his ideas from the US & Britain.
— Festive Finn ❄️🎄 (@phineasfrogg) 27 July 2017
Francis Galton, Darwin’s cousin, was the father of eugenics – in the mid-19th century he wrote Hereditary Genius, the eugenics ‘bible’.
— Festive Finn ❄️🎄 (@phineasfrogg) 27 July 2017
US state governments instituted eugenics programmes all over the country. See: California’s sterilisation record, Buck v Bell, Kallikaks.
— Festive Finn ❄️🎄 (@phineasfrogg) 27 July 2017
Hitler took what was already out there from US state experiments and applied it to Germany.
— Festive Finn ❄️🎄 (@phineasfrogg) 27 July 2017
There’s a long tradition within the US itself that Trump, Ryan, Pence, McConnell etc can draw from.
— Festive Finn ❄️🎄 (@phineasfrogg) 27 July 2017
Looks like DACA is following the same pattern as the Trump budget, Trumpcare and the trans military ban: marginalised people cost too much. https://t.co/jYvkT4hdZ0
— Festive Finn ❄️🎄 (@phineasfrogg) 5 September 2017
If you’re not straight, white, cis, male, abled, rich, you cost too much for the Trump Admin.
— Festive Finn ❄️🎄 (@phineasfrogg) 5 September 2017