"If you want to tear down racist monuments, you need to start with the living monument dedicated to white supremacy: Planned Parenthood."
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That makes as much sense as tearing down a Rite-Aid or a Delta Sonic Car Wash as a symbol of White Supremacy.
Let's blow up an Orthodontist to fight White Supremacy! How about a Tim Hortons or a McDonalds? Any random gas station would also create a pretty earth-shattering kaboom.
Go eat a bucket of razor blades, Beck.
Glenn, why haven't you died yet? You were supposed to have keeled over with righteous wrath back in 2012, when Obama was re-elected. You're late, Glenn, so go scarf down some fried Twinkies & corn dogs at the local county fair, & balance the scales.
Wow, it's been a very long time since someone brought up the "conspiracy theory" that US abortion providers are engaged in black genocide. I thought they gave up on pushing those blatant lies, which weren't even real conspiracy theories but a form of wingnut propaganda.
This is actually a fascinating example of how those of limited understanding and intelligence...well, think, for lack of a better word. You see, one of the founders of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, believed in eugenics. To people like Glenn Beck, that means she was a female Hitler who wanted to sterilise all those of the 'lesser' races, including black people, using abortion via Planned Parenthood to do it, so is clearly a racist. The reality is that there is more than one kind of eugenics, and this confuses people like Beck. Sanger's version of eugenics explicitly rejected race as a criteria for fitness, and was actually based around economic fitness - in other words, those too poor to support kids shouldn't have them. That still sounds pretty harsh, until you realise she also believed that those best placed to decide who was economically fit to have kids were the prospective parents, and making birth control freely available would allow those prospective parents to pick and choose when to have kids, so they could do so when they could financially support them. Of course, this required women, as well as men, to have access to birth control, which was a radical and controversial idea at the time (and, to some, still is, a century or so later).
Interestingly enough, given that the opposition to Planned Parenthood and the sliming of Sanger as a racist is usually done by anti-abortionists, it should be noted that Sanger herself was actually against abortion as birth control - but only because she thought that contraceptive methods that prevented pregnancy in the first place should be so freely available that the idea of abortion as birth control would and should die out.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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