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PizzaMan@lemmy.world 1 year agoThat’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.
jimbolauski@lemmy.world 1 year ago
She was their founder and it took until 2020 for them to renounce her.
PizzaMan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Repeating your argument doesn’t make it any more valid.
jimbolauski@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It wasn’t just a plaque on some wall they were removing, 2020 is when they finally denounced her.
PizzaMan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ok, that still doesn’t address the root of my argument, so I will ask it in a different way.
Can you prove that planned parenthood was explicitly embracing Sanger for her eugenics beliefs, instead of her beliefs about the importance of reproductive rights?
For example, people in this country openly embrace George Washington. Yet he was a slaver. He had slaves. But the people who see George Washington as a source of good for our country typically don’t include the slavery part as the good part. People are perfectly capable of acknowledging the good a historical figure has done while acknowledging the bad.
Would you consider references of George Washington to be racist?