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Re:Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health by refurb on Sunday November 08, 2020 @06:51AM (#25025131)
You are doing everything in your power, including a vigorous waving of hands - "maybe she meant something else" - to defend a known racist eugenicist. What game are you playing here?

Planned Parenthood is doing it's best to create as much distance between itself and Sanger, yet you're here defending her. Why?

Re:Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health by roenxi on Sunday November 08, 2020 @07:08AM (#25025232)
> Planned Parenthood is doing it's best to create as much distance between itself and Sanger, yet you're here defending her. Why?

You're out-of-context quoting someone who has been dead for no less than the better part of a century, and based on the evidence that you've drawn my attention to she was a tireless advocate of sensible family planning. I think that deserves some defence.

You said PP distanced from her because of her racist views. Ok, fair enough, everyone in history was basically a racist so that seems like a fair call. But her work as a 'eugenicist' seems to be commendable and most of what you have been bringing up today has ranged from commendable to reasonable in context. From what I've seen here it seems to me that this woman lived a life well spent. I'm not seeing anything that doesn't look like a reasonable option in the modern era - it is still the case that educated and wealthy families generally go with fewer children and are more likely to plan out their family for example. I support free and easy access to abortions.

> "maybe she meant something else"

I'm happy to be a bit stronger than that. She obviously meant something else. Voluntary access to family planning tools and training black ministers has to be one of the worst schemes to eradicate out the black community that I've ever encountered. It strains credulity, in fact.

Re:Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health by refurb on Sunday November 08, 2020 @09:53AM (#25026123)
A woman claims we need to eliminate “undesirable races” through “selective breeding” but apparently in your mind that’s something as you put it “commendable”.

Congrats, I guess?

Apparently you see nothing wrong with a woman Planned Parenthood is trying desperately to distance themselves from.