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jimbolauski@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Eugenics is still very popular in the US there’s a reason while planned Parenthood targets minorities.
PizzaMan@kbin.social 9 months ago
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
And the Democrats were the party of the Klan. Funny how things change as time passes.
jimbolauski@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The democrats moved on to other militant groups to attack their opposition.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Oh, he means BLM.
BLM IS THE SAME AS THE KLAN EVERYBODY, DON’T FORGET HOW THE LITERALLY LYNCHED KYLE RITTENHOUSE THEY WENT TO HIS HOME AND MURDERED HIM IN COLD BLOOD.
Fuck right off
jimbolauski@lemmy.world 9 months ago
BLM was not a militant organization, they were more the rioting and fraud group.
Weather underground, BLA, black Panthers, SLA, were responsible for 2,500 bombings in the US, they filled the void the klan left. Antifa, animal liberation brigade, black riders liberation party, … fill the current void.
PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 9 months ago
Can I get any evidence from them saying they target minorities? Any evidence at all will do.
jimbolauski@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Margaret Sanger, founder of planned parent hood, was a racists and huge supporter of eugenics, she even spoke at Klan meetings. In 1939 she started “The Negro Project”, a plan to target black communities. Here are some of her quotes.
We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population…" – Letter to Dr. Clarence J. Gamble, December 10, 1939, p. 2
“Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.”- from “My Way to Peace,” Jan. 17, 1932. Margaret Sanger Papers, Library of Congress 130:198.
“Permits for parenthood shall be issued upon application by city, county, or state authorities to married couples, providing they are financially able to support the expected child, have the qualifications needed for proper rearing of the child, have no transmissible diseases, and, on the woman’s part, no medical indication that maternity is likely to result in death or permanent injury to health.” – Margaret Sanger, “America Needs a Code for Babies,” Article 5, March 27, 1934.
“Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives… If we are to make racial progress, this development of womanhood must precede motherhood in every individual woman.” — “Woman and the New Race,” 1920
a_queer_one@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I don’t think many people aware of the history of Planned Parenthood would argue Margaret Sanger didn’t advocate eugenics, including Planned Parenthood
www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/…/our-history
“Margaret Sanger’s racism and belief in eugenics are in direct opposition to Planned Parenthood’s mission. Planned Parenthood denounces Margaret Sanger’s belief in eugenics. Further, Planned Parenthood denounces the history and legacy of anti-Blackness in gynecology and the reproductive rights movement, and the mistreatment that continues against Black, Indigenous, and other people of color in this country.”
Turns out that an organization can engage in self reflection and change beliefs over a century
FabioTheNewOrder@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Don’t you dare say something like that, don’t you know that once you espouse a certain way of life it’s impossible to change yourself or your world view?
That’s how republicans work, so everything in the world must work this way as well!!
/s
jimbolauski@lemmy.world 9 months ago
PP denied and justified Sanger’s ideas up until 3 years ago before that she was just allaying with the eugenics movement to further her goals.
Convincing undesirables that they shouldn’t have children sure seems to align with PP’s values. It seems PP just broadened their views to the “poors” and not just raced based.
PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 9 months ago
Sure.
But Planned Parenthood neither is nor prescribes a “stern rigid policy of sterilization and segregation” to anybody. And on that endeavor, it’s clear she failed spectacularly.
Furthermore, modern Planned Parenthood espouses feminist values, which are in direct opposition to the ideals of eugenics and segregation.
I don’t think Sanger’s original mission is even remotely applicable to the modern organization. So, I can’t really see how it is currently racist, even if that’s how it started.
jimbolauski@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Not really relevant but modern femist values are agnostic to racial segregation.
Sanger’s style of eugenics is compatible with PP’s modern values, convincing the undesirables the best option for them is not to reproduce. Forced eugenics was not Sanger’s style she was a coerced eugenics kind of gal.
Up until 3 or 4 years ago Sanger was still beatified inside PP. Her actions and message was downplayed and justified.