Just a heads-up: The “demon sperm” doctor being promoted by Breitbart & Trumpworld is likely going to be used as a ploy to suggest that leftists are racist for attacking a Black doctor. That’s classic Breitbart style.

You can already see the narrative taking shape...

Whenever Breitbart is involved in anything, the first thing you should do is identify the cultural/ideological flashpoints, and then assume that Breitbart is going to weaponize them in an effort to make the left look hypocritical and to cause infighting within movements like BLM.

Breitbart has done the same thing with #MeToo / #BelieveWomen, feminism, anti-Semitism, immigration, climate change, & more. It’s what they do. And given their ties to Steve Bannon & the Mercers, I wouldn’t rule out the involvement of other bad actors (think Cambridge Analytica).

And as usual, Breitbart is deligitimizing an actual problem in order to exploit it for political purposes. Western medicine in general is often extremely ethnocentric, & there’s a powerful legacy of racism in our medical institutions. But Breitbart isn’t concerned about that.

So instead of talking about the effects of racism in medical training & practice (& how to change that), Breitbart will shift the focus to one extreme example that isn’t representative of anything, but is a convenient & twisted way to distort a narrative in favor of Trump.

And just in case anyone wants to try to claim that Breitbart/Trumpworld are being sincere, take a look at how they’re talking about coronavirus. Breitbart has an entire section of articles labeled “Wuhan virus”, and Trump has a new derogatory nickname for the virus every week.

Also, let’s not forget how Trump refers to immigrants from African nations and Haiti. The doctor in question is one of those immigrants.

And although it’s too early to say anything conclusive about this, it seems pertinent to mention that Russia has been pouring resources into this space, seeking to gain influence in Africa while also exploiting existing racial tensions in the US to further Moscow’s own interests.

If you want to know what it looks like when Russia — in lockstep with far-right media outlets like Breitbart & bad actors like Roger Stone — exploits issues around race & racism, here’s one of the deep-dives I wrote about that exact topic: https://arcdigital.media/i-watched-over-100-covert-russian-propaganda-videos-on-youtube-heres-what-i-saw-b854b69762f2

Re. Breitbart/Cambridge Analytica (CA), here’s a short primer on how Bannon solicited CA to help build the tools to wage a "culture war" on Americans using strategies devised by a military contractor.

Bannon's priority: Win the culture war — at any cost.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/americanindependent.com/cambridge-analytica-christopher-wylie-voter-suppression-testimony-steve-bannon/amp/

One of the main ways Breitbart accomplishes its goals is through attention hacking — ie, exploiting the vulnerabilities in our shared information space using tactics like algorithmic gaming, political jujitsu, & flooding the zone. See example below.
https://twitter.com/rvawonk/status/1089593585941598208?s=21 https://twitter.com/rvawonk/status/1089593585941598208