NYU Prof Claims Trump’s Whole Milk Push is ‘Dog Whistle to Far Right’
“Fascists have used the beverage as a rallying cry for white supremacy since the days of Il Duce’s (Benito Mussolini’s) public health campaigns in Italy”
People on the left see hidden meanings about Trump everywhere. Everything he does is secret code for something else.
The College Fix reports:
NYU professor: Trump whole milk push is ‘dog whistle to far right’
When President Donald Trump signed a law that allowed for the National School Lunch Program to distribute whole milk again, he was actually sending out a signal to neo-Nazis, so says a New York University professor.
In January, President Trump celebrated the bipartisan “Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025,” which will allow the federally subsidized school lunch program to offer the higher-fat content dairy once against. President Obama removed the option in 2010 over fears it was contributing to childhood obesity.
The legislation passed by a voice vote in the U.S. House and unanimously in the U.S. Senate, according to Roll Call. While many would see this as a triumph of partisan gridlock, Professor Arthur Caplan sees something much darker.
“As a student of and writer on the history of science and public health under fascist regimes, I am suspicious,” he said. “Milk drinking is political. Drinking whole white milk has played a big role in racist and far-right thinking.”
Here we go.
“Fascists have used the beverage as a rallying cry for white supremacy since the days of Il Duce’s (Benito Mussolini’s) public health campaigns in Italy,” Caplan wrote in The American Journal of Bioethics. “The Nazis were enamored of whole milk as well…In America, drinking whole milk has for years been a part of alt-right, white nationalist messaging in tweets, memes, and videos.”
“Alt-right?” 2018 called, it wants its boogeyman back. (Also, whenever Caplan accuses someone else of being authoritarian, remember he supported barring individuals from flying on planes and eating in restaurants unless they showed their vaccine papers).
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“While many would see this as a triumph of partisan gridlock, Professor Arthur Caplan sees something much darker.”
ISWYDT with your wording choice vis a vis what Caplan sees.
Also, wasn’t whole milk the only type of milk available when Mussolini was in power?
No. Evaporated milk and powdered milk were readily available.
Yes, but when you reconstituted it, did you get whole milk, skim milk, or what?
b/c dark milk is sooo much better
the race hustlers scream
Once you go bock, you never go back.
Seems like everything is dog whistle politics by the Right in the eyes of the Left, but screaming ‘Gas the Jews’ and ‘Death to the IDF’ is not racist because the Left think their reasons are legitimate.
If you hear the dog whistle, you are the dog.
“Milk drinking is political.”
Unlike, say, Twitter health censorship.
Shut up and eat your mayo sandwich on Wonder Bread, professor.
Gee, the Amish drink whole milk. Does that make them fascists who support MAGA? “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”—George Orwell
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So I was raised on a working farm in western Pennsylvania near Amish country. Milked and consumed whole milk all my childhood. I’m almost 70 and healthy and am told I look 10-15 years younger. I am disgusted with “far right whistles.” There is nothing political about raising and eating your own food! The left are really reaching for straws to stir up their moronic base.