Thread by @brooklynmarie

See how the #TantonNetwork keeps trying to feed Americans these lines? That's because it's been a reliable way for eugenicists to control voters using fear for decades. It's all unhinged, racist bullshit

https://twitter.com/lispower1/status/1514237676341313549

When Fox took this line in 2014, groups of white supremacists -- some of whom are part of the antimasker/antivaxxer/convoy/QAnon crowd today -- went out physically to Murietta to block buses of little kids who had come to the border alone seeking asylum. They abused children.

Same people, same lies. Even their signs were the same. kpbs.org/news/border-im…

Here's what they said at the time. It was bullshit then and it's the exact same bullshit now. Call them out for insulting us all with these transparent lies. #TantonNetwork

Remember the Federation for American Immigration Reform, the group that the Trump administration hired so many people from? The ones who love to take children away from their families? That's what they were saying in 2014. Read more on FAIR here (2013): adl.org/news/article/t…

There's also a big conversation to be had on why news orgs continue to use these groups as "the other side" to anything about immigration, when they've been exposed as "population control" and pro-eugenics groups in anti-immigration clothing for years now.

I actually fought to get reference to these groups out after this shitshow. I worked at KPBS at 2014, the news org whose link I posted above (not my story) and I was appalled that FAIR and related Tantonite groups were getting treated as authorities on immigration

When I saw they were running FAIR disinformation, I just about shit a puppy and made a huge scene. Luckily I was doing this alongside others pushing for the same thing, so I wasn't alone in this fight. And it worked! ... until late 2016, when all news orgs suddenly switched back.

Because they perceived that the country was about to become far more right wing I guess, and wanted to make sure that they were catering to the eugenicists and fascists in the name of bothsidesism. Watching that awful backslide spoke volumes about what's considered "objectivity."

So there's a history there. I don't just run around yelling about it. I know they know, and they know I know they know. And they're still pushing disinformation at me, you, and everybody, because spineless editors are scared they'll get mean phone calls from right-wingers.

That's why I advocate strongly for writing letters and making calls to local politicians and local newsrooms calling out their right-wing pandering and biases. Because news organizations catering to disinformation and weaponized lies is killing people. Millions of people.

These "population control" groups, who still have a strong network all over the U.S. government, have also effectively, deliberately muddled the messaging on COVID-19 and caused enormous amounts of needless suffering and death. That's why they pivot to blaming immigrants 24/7

Here's one of my old threads about exactly this network in March 2020, warning everybody that I thought something like this would happen

https://twitter.com/brooklynmarie/status/1242218890001666048

Here's some discussion about FAIR (and related disinfo groups such as English Only, Zero Population Growth, and the Center for Immigration Studies) from November 2014: source.wustl.edu/2014/11/racist…

You'll probably recognize the names of some of the players from back then from their time in the Trump administration. Here's a 2017 story about that vice.com/en/article/mb9…

Never forget exactly what the fuck these people are. Never forget exactly who the fuck has enabled them every step of the way. Never forget that they are wrong, and they are racists, and they are filthy fascists and open eugenicists. And never stop calling them out.

https://twitter.com/davidneiwert/status/1514274793243111425

https://twitter.com/davidneiwert/status/1514275065663156230

Here's another shitty thing that the #TantonNetwork's Greg Abbott is trying to force in order to create excuses to further harden the border. Naturally, the "trucker's convoy" doesn't give a shit about this, because they don't actually care about truckers

texastribune.org/2022/04/11/tex…

And all this is why I say: damemagazine.com/2022/04/06/rei…