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marmar

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Mon May 9, 2022, 09:24 AM May 2022

The Abortion Firestorm is also a White Freak-out About the Browning of America [View all]


The Abortion Firestorm is also a White Freak-out About the Browning of America
America is no longer all-white or all-under-white-control and white supremacists on the Court are bound and determined to do something about it

Thom Hartmann


The abortion battle is not just about religion.

We’re also watching the last ages of white supremacy, and it’s scaring the hell out of white people who’ve bought into the racist belief that “others” are fundamentally different and inferior.

This firestorm around abortion is another dimension of the white freak-out about the browning of America that stretches from the days of slavery through 19th century “scientific racism” to Charles Murray’s book The Bell Curve: America is no longer all-white or all-under-white-control.

....(snip)....

Let’s be clear here: Alito and Barrett are talking about white babies.

There is an actual “shortage” of them, dating back to Roe v Wade being put into law, causing white people who want to parent but can’t or don’t want to go through a pregnancy to turn to adoptions from Russia and Eastern European nations. ..............(more)

https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-abortion-firestorm-is-also-a?




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