Thread by @brooklynmarie

This vicious, nasty little #MarthasVineyard stunt did one good thing: it revealed exactly how the #TantonNetwork operates. It's this, and it's going on all over the country under the very noses of Americans, pushing along an overtly racist and eugenicist agenda.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1573341429933350913

The network was created by John Tanton, who first was concerned simply with the spectre of "overpopulation," but as so often happens, quickly decided that the people who were "overpopulating" the planet were the ones who didn't look like him

splcenter.org/fighting-hate/…

Unfortunately, this is a very lucrative stance as it appears to be shared by a lot of people who never worked a day in their lives for the wealth they did not earn. This was one of his first and most generous funders nytimes.com/2019/08/14/us/…

This was well known as a eugenicist network filled with cranks -- until everyone who knew that in journalism either got fired or silenced, thanks to weaponized "objectivity" and all the rest of what went down these last few years. 2013: adl.org/news/article/t…

This network's greatest strength, besides the shitbag billionaires throwing money at them, is in weaponized disinformation narratives against immigrants, particularly with malappropriated or misused optics. They sure love their optics

Since the Trump admin brought them into the federal government en masse, we've had to contend with hideous realities, including coerced or involuntary sterilization and separating babies from parents. Babies and borders, abortion and immigration, that's why it's the same people

It has been so frustrating watching everybody forget this. But perhaps now it can be excavated and laid open before us for all time, so we can know what has been done in our names for decades for the purpose of "population control." Story from 2011 nytimes.com/2011/04/17/us/…

Anyway, when I say the #TantonNetwork, I mean specifically what you see in the top tweet. It's going on all over the USA, and it's a massive and deadly grift that runs on dehumanization, lies, and keeping the border region as grey a zone as possible for continued exploitation.