“Slander?” You wouldn’t even post the fact that Margaret Sanger was an ardent eugenicist.
What I wouldn't do is let you bring entirely irrelevant right-wing talking points into a discussion of something else. If there's one thing that the city politician in question has never, ever been accused of it is that intellectual crime so very adjacent to your emotional ideological side. As a progressive Jew he's probably as repulsed by it as I am.
But I don't believe in letting opportunities given by my enemies going to waste so let me point out what I've posted here in the past.
If you did what I suggested you do, search the archives of what I've posted you'd see I have posted about her eugenics in a far more serious context, her nearness to those who advocated state murder of entire classes of People.
Unfortunate, but also there, are Perkins' letters from and to Margaret Sanger, from the period in which she was active in eugenics, unfortunately associating birth control during that period, with eugenics and implications of racism. Birth control activism in the modern period certainly has left that association, promoting personal choice on the basis of individual autonomy, especially that of women. It would be a disaster to fall for the attempt to turn Margaret Sanger into a millstone for the right to birth control as Darwin has become for today's evolutionary science. Both should be left to the dead past.
That's me, in a post I posted twice, according to my archive search. Here's a passage I quoted and cited:
Grant’s views were widely shared among a hard core of leading eugenicists such as the biologist and American eugenics organizer Charles Davenport and Lothrop Stoddard, the Boston Brahmin political scientist and leading antiBolshevik who labeled the Jew as “the cause of world unrest.” Many such ideas also enjoyed support among many liberals, such as the government chemist and Pure Food and Drug Act pioneer Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, birth control advocate Margaret Sanger, and civil rights lawyer Clarence Darrow, who said it was just to “chloroform unfit children . . .
[Note: In my too early morning writing and editing gave the wrong link, here's the right one. I'll leave the wrong one above in because it reinforces a point I made here this morning.]
A third mention of her was merely a reference to her prosecution for distributing birth control information, to condemn Charles Darwin's advocacy of eugenics. If there's one theme I've gone into in detail, it is to condemn eugenics.
To support that interpretation, I noted his letter to Charles Bradlaugh, the most famous British atheist of the time, saying if Darwin went to court to testify, as Bradlaugh requested him to, in the case brought against Bradlaugh and Annie Besant for distributing information on birth control, he would testify for the prosecution. Darwin sounded not much different from those who prosecuted Margaret Sanger for essentially the same crime. So much for Darwin as the champion of women's emancipation and self-determination. Not to mention 21st century notions of liberalism.
I wrote that as well.
I believe you should have known this while you were trolling me under a different name while mostly keeping your white supremacist inclinations more in check. If I were like you I'd accuse you of opposition to the use of birth control, though I don't know what you think about that so I haven't done that. It wouldn't surprise me if I found out you supported some forms of EUGENICS OF THE KIND THAT THE TRUMP REGIME IS CARRYING OUT RIGHT NOW WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE REPUBLICAN-FASCIST CAUCUS IN THE CONGRESS AND THE FASCIST ROBERTS COURT IS ALLOWING RIGHT NOW. Both the kind of eugenics through negligence and allowing People to starve to death, die of untreated illness, anti-vaccination (shades of Darwin) and exclusion from the country by racist policy (which I am certain you support). I suspect you would support the reimposition of the 1924 racist anti-immigration act that would, ironically enough, have kept the family of your soul-mate Steven Miller out of the country. I have every confidence you and the Temu Goebbles share that in common.
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