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• PizzaMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • 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.

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    • 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?

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      • jimbolauski@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Your George Washington straw man misses the mark, he didn’t fight for slaves. It’s more like beatifying General Lee, slave owner and general for the confederacy. I would say people that support General Lee are racists.

        I don’t have to prove PP publicly approved of Sanger’s eugenics. They knew about her past, celebrated her and tried to down play her racists ramblings up until 3 years ago. Their current statement on her should have happened 40 years ago.

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