Margret Sanger was racist

I know but remember she was born in like 1880 though. So only 15 years after the Civil War.

Originally posted by Surtur
I know but remember she was born in like 1880 though.

You actually just taught me something, I didn't know that was when she lived. I thought it was more recent. No idea PP had been around this long, what a disgrace. All the people they have killed in the name of snuffing out black babies and eugenics.

Yeah I was thrown by that too, I had not thought she'd be that old. So she grew up with Jim Crow laws and stuff like that.

But then that just goes back to the question of how much of an excuse that gives someone..since it essentially boils down to an "everyone else was doing it" type mentality.

People love to hate on Jim Crow, and forget about Sanger.

Do you think Jim Crow was a person, or are you using the word as a synecdoche?

And, no, people don't really look past Sanger's racism. It's a well known topic, I've read many papers about how her racism might tarnish her other causes. Attacking Sanger to attack modern abortion activism though is like attacking Freud's cocaine use to criticize modern clinical psychology.

Ben Carson,

"If Black lives matter, why is 70% of all abortions from black's?"

Originally posted by Omega Vision
Do you think Jim Crow was a person, or are you using the word as a synecdoche?

And, no, people don't really look past Sanger's racism. It's a well known topic, I've read many papers about how her racism might tarnish her other causes. Attacking Sanger to attack modern abortion activism though is like attacking Freud's cocaine use to criticize modern clinical psychology.

Used as a synecdoche👆