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CatLady78

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14. I am with you - she was a product of her times
Wed Jul 22, 2020, 04:46 AM
Jul 2020

Last edited Wed Jul 22, 2020, 09:39 AM - Edit history (2)

If she were alive today she would have progressed in her views (unlike those who attack her from the right). In her time, there was widespread support for eugenics-a huge error but the irony is that those who fake outrage over it from the right (think Fox News, the GOP etc) still think like that today. We have to learn to separate people who were imperfect or made errors from the irredeemably regressive.
Unlike many of those who attack her, she actually did a lot of good.

That said, PP is doing the right thing strategically for the simple reason that they face many attacks as is. Their work is very important-anything that lets the actual racists and sexists from the right smear them more easily is best dispensed with. Fortunately a lot of these smears also come from incredibly stupid people like James O'Keefe.

This message was self-deleted by its author denem Jul 2020 #1
Good for them Lulu KC Jul 2020 #2
i thought this Eugenics was a star trek and other scifi thing. AllaN01Bear Jul 2020 #3
Someone posted the other day "Who knew that our history books were fan fiction?" catrose Jul 2020 #12
K&R n/t ChazII Jul 2020 #4
so I guess they did a reseach on her catsudon Jul 2020 #5
They defended her for years. Igel Jul 2020 #6
?????? musette_sf Jul 2020 #9
from your link catsudon Jul 2020 #13
I disagree with the attacks on Sanger CatLady78 Jul 2020 #15
I don't think PP has to do this at all. musette_sf Jul 2020 #29
I am glad you contacted them and made these points CatLady78 Jul 2020 #36
I am really curious how they reply to you obamanut2012 Jul 2020 #37
Good. mahina Jul 2020 #7
I disagree with the decision that Planned Parenthood has made. musette_sf Jul 2020 #8
She Was Dedicated RobinA Jul 2020 #10
The morality of racism of eugenics and racism are one and the same. denem Jul 2020 #11
She Had Some Views RobinA Jul 2020 #19
This is a great post CatLady78 Jul 2020 #20
I disagree with your assertion that musette_sf Jul 2020 #26
"Nowhere in Ms Sanger's writings or speeches does she state that "deprived people" denem Jul 2020 #34
I am with you - she was a product of her times CatLady78 Jul 2020 #14
I agree catsudon Jul 2020 #17
"she was a product of her times" denem Jul 2020 #18
i did not know about catsudon Jul 2020 #21
It is cultural borderline personality CatLady78 Jul 2020 #23
Ms Sanger never made any reference to "lower races". musette_sf Jul 2020 #27
Crazy time kelly97 Jul 2020 #16
It's like we're purging the past, and I think we're going too far, IMO. Calista241 Jul 2020 #22
Let me quote Margaret Sanger herself. denem Jul 2020 #24
Abortion at the turn of the 20th century was a brutal, unperfected, slap-dash process Calista241 Jul 2020 #28
Agreed, and thank you for your post. musette_sf Jul 2020 #30
Sanger, by her own account, regarded abortion as barbaric denem Jul 2020 #32
All they did was take her name off a building Yeehah Jul 2020 #25
Except she wasn't "bad". musette_sf Jul 2020 #31
Was eugenics bad? denem Jul 2020 #33
She was a good person mixed with some bad Yeehah Jul 2020 #35
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