Geez. I read this chapter last week and totally dropped the ball on writing about it, in part because it is so meaty. We probably should have divided this chapter in half there’s so much.
Chapter 7 gives me one of my good laughs. I remember a speech Jonah gave in Atlanta last year in which he talked about Barack Obama standing before Planned Parenthood praising its founding, oblivious to the fact that Planned Parenthood was founded, in part, to kill black babies. In fact, judging by all the undercover work out there, that’s still where Planned Parenthood’s heart is.
To make this short, one of the big ideas of early 20th century progressives was eugenics — creating a more pure society through sterilization and killing of the infirmed, retarded, and minority. The left enjoys tarring and feathering conservatives over desegregation, opposition to affirmative action, etc. but its moral and intellectual leaders at the start of the 20th century were the ones championing killing people because they were dumb or black.
In fact, to this day, the taint of eugenics lives on in the left. From abortion to social welfare policies, the left is trying to create a more perfect society through destructive programs that do more harm than good.
Let’s read Chapter 8 next week. Someone else is going to have to take the book reporting duties for the front page next Monday. I’ll be traveling.
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Face it, Liberals can barely tolerate
johnt Tuesday, December 1st at 11:29AM EST (link)each other.
Glad to see the word “destruction” in there. It’s difficult for normal people to conceive, but at bottom, and I do mean bottom, it’s what this disease is all about.
“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville
Planned Parenthood really needs to be watched.
andyd (Diary) Wednesday, December 2nd at 5:22AM EST (link)I don’t believe anyone can read this chapter and not be suspicious of Planned Parenthood’s activities through history and into today. The Abortion debate has been framed around “reproductive rights”. Conservatives need to do a better job of framing the abortion debate around the effect abortion has on mothers / families/ and communities. How can we discuss the “morality” of abortion and not look at the fact that 37% of abortions are in the black community?
As a side note, if you are looking for a volunteer to post for Chapter 8 next week, I would love to volunteer.
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– John Adams
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Short-sighted liberal hypocrites
rogerj Wednesday, December 2nd at 10:35AM EST (link)Why is it liberals always fail to see the obvious? Statistically, government financed abortion seems to benefit (?) minorities the most. Minorities are more often than not liberals. So, thanks to liberal politicians, they are effectively reducing the size of their own electorate every time they finance and encourage a minority to have an abortion. I’m delighted that liberals have proven to be as dumb as I feared.
RogerJ
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
mkj350 Wednesday, December 2nd at 10:38AM EST (link)confirmed this in her July 2009 interview with the New York Times: “In an interview to be published in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she thought the landmark Roe v. Wade decision on abortion was predicated on the Supreme Court majority’s desire to diminish “populations that we don’t want to have too many of.” If a lib tries to deny this, here it is right from the horse’s mouth.
UNCONSTITUTIONAL FROM THE GET GO!
freedomforall Wednesday, December 2nd at 11:04AM EST (link)ImpeachObamaCampaign.com is a project of the Policy Issues Institute.
freedomforall, you've become tiresome. To impeach you need votes,
Achance (Diary) Wednesday, December 2nd at 12:10PM EST (link)and we don’t have them. Find something else to rant about and turn off the caps.
In Vino Veritas
I am reminded of this guy >=]-
blooch Wednesday, December 2nd at 12:17PM EST (link)http://www.redstate.com/users/disgustedamerican/
“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
Eugenics has a long history
soljerblue Wednesday, December 2nd at 11:51AM EST (link)The concept has captured even those we consider giants of the legal profession. Although, for the record, I wouldn’t consider Ginsburg to be one of those. However, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes — as Jonah clearly notes — was a firm supporter of eugenics. And need we point out that Adolf Hitler’s attempt to do away with non-Aryan, mentally defective, homosexual citizens — the Nuremberg Laws — was a logical extension of eugenics thinking? I don’t see it as any big stretch that what we refer to as ethnic cleansing today, not to mention legalized abortion and euthanasia, are logical extensions of the idea.
Roughly 80 percent
liddleun Wednesday, December 2nd at 10:18PM EST (link)of Planned Parenthood’s abortion centers are in or near minority neighborhood’s. The fastest growing segment of Planned Parenthood is in predominately Latino areas. The Left’s unwavering plan for total control goes marching on. With the assistance of cap and trade,” health care”, ie. death pannels and the U.N. of course.
if you scratch PP hard enough
kyle8 (Diary) Wednesday, December 2nd at 10:23PM EST (link)I will bet you find some Acorn levels of corruption.
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Kyle