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beam me up scottie

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5. She was definitely wrong about eugenics.

Reply to cyclonefence (Reply #4)

Thu Sep 14, 2017, 02:52 PM

Sep 2017

I understand how her writing can be misinterpreted, but that's exactly why the racism accusations from the right are so insidious - they impugn her motives by misrepresenting her own words and efforts in minority communities. They even tried to use a picture of her speaking to Klan women about birth control to claim she was a member. Anti-choice zealots hope that people will take their word for it and won't dig any deeper.

She must have been a very courageous woman.

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Freethought of the Day: Margaret Sanger [View all] beam me up scottie Sep 2017 OP

In that pic she looks remarkably like Katrina vanden Heuvel underpants Sep 2017 #1

Margaret Sanger Eugenicist and perhaps Racist cyclonefence Sep 2017 #2

Sanger's 'racism' is a right wing meme spread by anti-choice politicians. beam me up scottie Sep 2017 #3

Well, if she was good enough for MLK, she's good enough for me cyclonefence Sep 2017 #4

She was definitely wrong about eugenics. beam me up scottie Sep 2017 #5

Wish I could rec this clarifying post also. rurallib Sep 2017 #6

My pleasure. beam me up scottie Sep 2017 #7