This comes across as a very typical ploy by the Trump supporting pseudo-cons. They love to paint themselves as the victims of some dark conspiracy, and I say its typical because it combines their 3 favorite topics: Abortion, whiteness, Trump supporter victimhood. They claim some doctor at Mayo Clinic tricked Trump supporters to abort their white babies. This is spreading like a wildfire in the RW social media Fact check: Hoax post impersonating Mayo Clinic physician continues to circulate https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...trump-supporters-hoax-mayo-clinic/7637860001/ The claim: Mayo Clinic staff member misdiagnosed pregnancies of Trump supporters Recently, some social media users have been outraged to read a post in which a Twitter user purporting to be a doctor claims to be tricking supporters of former president Donald Trump into terminating healthy pregnancies. "When Trump supporters come to my office at the Mayo Clinic, I love misdiagnosing their healthy pregnancies as ectopic so they have to abort their white fetuses," the tweet reads. A screenshot of the tweet appeared in a June 14 Instagram post posted by conservative outreach group Young America's Foundation. The screenshot also included a tweet from another anonymous social media poster claiming to be a doctor who gives Trump supporters vitamins instead of antibiotics.
Why would anybody reading that think it's legitimate? It sounds stupid. They don't advertise it if that's what is happening (and I actually know some that really do but they target minorities and pregnant teens).
This is the price we pay for using Twitter and then believing what we read there. I don't understand why this was brought up at all here.
WTH? I visit a bunch of 'social media' and haven't heard a thing about this, much less it looks like it was written by a twelve year old.
It's the kind of thing that Russian trolls would come up with and circulate on wrong-wing sites and Fakebook groups.
Yes, it sounds stupid. Even if it was true, no doctor would be dumb enough to admit doing it. Sure, but people swallow it anyway.
RAW: Spoiler: keeping it real Until the Orange Stain happened, I had a higher opinion of our fellow countrymen and women.
Identifying and fully ignoring misinformation is an acquired skill. Perhaps doing so is a bit selfish. Then again, perhaps not.