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• jimbolauski@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  PP finally removed Sanger’s name from Manhattan Health Center in 2020.

  www.cnn.com/2020/07/22/us/…/index.html

  “The removal of Margaret Sanger’s name from our building is both a necessary and overdue step to reckon with our legacy and acknowledge Planned Parenthood’s contributions to historical reproductive harm within communities of color,” said Karen Seltzer, the chair of PPGNY’s board. “Margaret Sanger’s concerns and advocacy for reproductive health have been clearly documented, but so too has her racist legacy.”

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  • PizzaMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s doesn’t exactly support your claim, or at least not very well. That article is light on the details, but from the sound of it, Sanger’s name was on a plaque of some sort, and her name isn’t exactly super well known, nor is her racist history, so it’s sounds like it was more or less forgotten. Second, a plaque within a single building doesn’t automatically reflect the values of an entire organization.

    There are still confederate statues around, does that reflect the values of all american cities? No, of course not.

    There are Carnegie libraries all over my city. Do those libraries hold the values that Carnegie did? Not really.

    It just doesn’t make sense to label an entire organization as racist, let alone jump to the claim that “eugenics is still very popular” based off of one plaque on one building of one organization.

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    • jimbolauski@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      She was their founder and it took until 2020 for them to renounce her.

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      • PizzaMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Repeating your argument doesn’t make it any more valid.

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