Never underprice the fascist/far right hatred of disabled people - Trump often raises disability unprompted in his DEI rants and obviously historically it’s intrinsically tied to cults of eugenics and white supremacy. - ThreadSky

petefrasermusic.bsky.social • 4 days ago

Never underprice the fascist/far right hatred of disabled people - Trump often raises disability unprompted in his DEI rants and obviously historically it’s intrinsically tied to cults of eugenics and white supremacy.

Reposted from Chaminda Jayanetti

Very good corrective to the frankly psychopathic right-wing war on Motability exploding across twitter and the hard-right media over the last couple of weeks www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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brennick.bsky.social•4 days ago

rexforever.bsky.social•4 days ago

I was part of a curriculum review for the local ISD a few years ago and there are some parents that acted like if your child has disabilities, they are a lost cause and the district shouldn’t worry about teaching them at all. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.

hypergraphic.bsky.social•4 hours ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9reO3QnUA

petefrasermusic.bsky.social•4 days ago

It’s very striking how consistent these people have been, generationally, in the targets of their attacks - the progressive/sane world have evolved its views on gender, sexual orientation, race, accessibility etc with consistent pace and flexibility, but the far right hates all the same stuff it…

petefrasermusic.bsky.social•4 days ago

…did in the 1930s and I dare say before. It can functionally simply a totally static cult of ‘what is best for white, gentile men?’, but taken to murderous extremes.

petefrasermusic.bsky.social•4 days ago

This. He’s spent a decade regularly attacking and mocking disabled people.

https://bsky.app/profile/brennick.bsky.social/post/3ll4n2gkwsc2j

lairddinnaken.bsky.social•4 days ago

As many have said, this should have ended his career in any country other than the nuthouse

simonguy.bsky.social•4 days ago

That was it - the point where the new political realities left me behind; how anyone voted for him after that was beyond me. A crystal clear indication that his pathological pursuit of power would come for anyone and everyone.

petefrasermusic.bsky.social•4 days ago

Even among the ‘economically anxious’ racists, this should’ve been the only red flag they needed, but presumably they basically agree with him. Or just don’t mind.

ryanlohner.bsky.social•4 days ago

Hitler’s attempt to do this resulted in the only time he was publicly booed.

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