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Say what you will about Margaret Sanger: She would have HATED 3rd Wave feminists and the left - DetroitOtaku Rants

DetroitOtakuJun 11, 2022, 5:01:27 AM
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What the hell, let's piss everyone on the left and right the hell off today. Time to dive into arguably my most controversial discussion yet.

The radical 3rd Wave feminists on the left become more insufferable and totalitarian by the day. Wherever you go, you see leftist feminists destroy the lives of innocent men, labeling them with false accusations over rape or sexual harassment. Not only that, they hold ridiculous protests against anti-abortion laws while wearing the red robes from the Handmaid's Tale. We also saw them storm the U.S Capital building during the Kavanaugh hearings without being charged for it. 

And keep in mind - this whole feminist push to destroy innocent men, as well as the push for abortion-on-demand from feminists...this isn't new. This has happened before, and it's a fundamental aspect of radical feminism going back to the early 20th century, to the time of Margaret Sanger - and despite what you may have heard about her, she absolutely reviled this kind of behavior.

For MANY people, Sanger is a highly controversial figure to talk about. 

And let's get one thing clear before you read any further into this article: Sanger does not have to be a saint for her critics to be liars.

If you listen to the American Right and the pro-life movement, they often love to talk about how Sanger was pro-eugenics and was basically the female Hitler, but such a description couldn't be further from the truth. Yes, it is true that Sanger was indeed pro-eugenics but she wasn't exactly a social Darwinist. Not many people know this, but Sanger actually hated abortion with a burning passion and was merely a radical promoter of birth control. 

Even conservative and pro-life news outlet RedState doesn't dispute the fact that Sanger opposed abortion, stating that: 

"She turned women seeking abortions away from her clinics: 'I do not approve of abortion.' She called it 'sordid,' 'abhorrent,' 'terrible,' 'barbaric,' a 'horror.' She called abortionists 'blood-sucking men with MD after their names who perform operations for the price of so-and-so.'" 

Sanger was merely a promoter of birth control, and the organization she founded - Planned Parenthood, originally started out as a birth control clinic. Many of her quotes about birth control were ripped badly from context. She promoted birth control as a way to not just reduce the population of the underclass - whose high fertility rates had a demonstrably negative impact on society, but to improve that class’s standard of living. In short, Sanger believed that birth control would help society's most impoverished members, bring them out of poverty and to a higher quality of life. 

Sanger made it clear that birth control had nothing to do with abortion, and that "it has nothing to do with interfering with or disturbing life after conception has taken place", another statement that RedState doesn't dispute. 

Many would be surprised to learn that Planned Parenthood did not offer abortion services until 1970 - four years after Sanger died. In 1973, Roe v. Wade legalized abortion nationwide - a ruling that Sanger would have absolutely reviled if she were still alive at that time, given her blatant anti-abortion stance.

During the past decade, the radical militant leftists from Antifa and Black Lives Matter, in response to the murders of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray and George Floyd, torched neighborhoods in major cities such as Ferguson, Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Kenosha, Washington, Grand Rapids, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle. These cities were destroyed by the rioters of BLM and Antifa, most especially the former. When you look at the destruction these people caused in the name of avenging dead convicted felons like Gray and Floyd, you begin to see what Sanger meant regarding the negative impact that the underclass has on society. 

This applies to criminals of ALL races, especially in the case of convicted sex offender Joseph Rosenbaum and domestic abuser Anthony Huber - the two criminals that were shot dead in self-defense by Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The riots in Kenosha and Minneapolis during 2020 are exactly what Sanger feared regarding the underclass' negative impact on society. 

Many will say that I'm being a racist and supporting Sanger's views on blacks, but that is not what I am doing. I'm merely providing CONTEXT and I'm writing about details that I think people should know about. Again: Sanger does not have to be a saint for her critics to be liars.

Regarding Sanger's views on race, these two talking points are used for shock value by both the left and right to prove that Sanger was a racist - her speech to the KKK, and her 1939 quote: 

"We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." 

Context is important here, and these two things - her quote about blacks and her speech to the KKK - were both ripped badly from it. 

Yes, Sanger did indeed speak to the KKK, but mainly because she wanted to spread the word about birth control to any interested party, she was never a member of the KKK or a sympathizer. But speaking to the KKK was something that should not have been done, and I think Sanger rightfully deserves to be bashed profusely for speaking to them, as it heavily tarnished her image to many. And moving onto her 1939 quote, it was ripped badly from context, and what Sanger meant was that she did not want a negative impression to be had of her work, which was to provide Southern blacks with access to birth control. Regarding her views on race, she actually gave interviews with African American newspapers, most notably the Chicago Defender in 1945, where she stated that:

“Discrimination is a worldwide thing. It has to be opposed everywhere. That is why I feel the Negro’s plight here is linked with that of the oppressed around the globe,” said Sanger. “The big answer, as I see it, is the education of the white man. The white man is the problem. It is the same as with the Nazis. We must change the white attitudes.” 

Not only that, she was also part of the Anti-Nazi Committee and was a vocal opponent of Adolf Hitler. Like I said - CONTEXT is important. 

Another important detail that has been buried is that it wasn't the left that helped make Sanger's dream of legalized birth control in America a reality. It was the Right. No, I'm not making it up. Republicans Prescott Bush, eventual U.S. President George H.W. Bush, and famed conservative senator and author of Conscience of a Conservative, Barry Goldwater, all had ties to Planned Parenthood. Sanger was also friends with Barry Goldwater’s wife Peggy, and together they opened the first branch of Planned Parenthood in Arizona. 

Also, here's another fact that you have never been told: Margaret Sanger left the Socialist Party during the latter half of her life and became a registered Republican, and she held local Planned Parenthood meetings, as well as meetings of the Women's Republican Club in her home in Tucson, Arizona.

Let us go back to the era before Griswold v. Connecticut - the Supreme Court decision overturning the conviction of a Planned Parenthood worker in Connecticut for giving birth control advice and prescriptions to married couples. The Roman Catholic Church long opposed the freedom of non-Catholics to use birth control. Protestants, since the 1930 Lambeth Conference, accepted birth control as an appropriate part of marriage sexuality. In 1950, when Prescott Bush ran for an open U.S. Senate seat in heavily Catholic Connecticut, a last minute story exposed his position as Planned Parenthood's treasurer, which caused him to lose the election by 1,000 votes. Republicans played a part in the legalization of birth control before Griswold. This is why Sanger opposed John F. Kennedy and supported his opponent, Richard Nixon, in the 1960 election, as she feared that JFK's membership with the Roman Catholic Church would lead him to crack down on or oppose birth control. Catholics overwhelmingly voted Democrat back then and Democrats did not want to alienate their base. Plus, in part due to it’s high Catholic population, Connecticut would become a solid blue state during the 1960s, as they voted for JFK by 8 points in 1960, they voted for Lyndon B. Johnson by a 2-1 margin in 1964, and they voted for Hubert Humphrey by 5 points in 1968.

By 1965, only Connecticut and Massachusetts opposed legalization of birth control. Before Griswold, the U.S. Supreme Court failed to legalize birth control in Connecticut several times but on technicalities. The Connecticut legislature could have legalized it themselves to avoid the court's ultimate ruling, but the Catholic Church wanted it's dogma to be the law of the land and for it to be imposed on non-Catholics as well. If the Connecticut Democrats and the Church had relented, Griswold v. Connecticut would not have happened, and neither would Roe v. Wade, as that ruling depended on Griswold. 

So basically, you can thank the intolerance of the Democratic Party and the Roman Catholic Church for paving the way for Griswold v. Connecticut and Roe v. Wade - the latter, by the way, decided by FIVE Republican appointed justices. You can also thank them for stalling the legalization of birth control for so long. Especially since as recently as 2015, Democrats in the Senate rebuked a Republican bill which would have made birth control purchasable over-the-counter. 

And it was eventual President George H.W. Bush, then a congressman, who in 1970 championed Title X legislation to cut back on the amount of single-mom welfare families created by President Lyndon B. Johnson's disastrous Great Society programs, which was signed into law by President Richard Nixon. 

Are we SURE Sanger would have belonged on the left? Because all this Republican support for birth control CLEARLY says otherwise. 

If that's not enough proof, you want to know who was a virulent opponent of Sanger and helped spread the talking points that she was a racist? 

Angela Davis of the COMMUNIST PARTY USA. On page 396 of the book 'Women Imagine Change: A Global Anthology of Women's Resistance from 600 B.C.E. to Present', Davis stated that: 

"When Margaret Sanger severed her ties with the Socialist Party for the purpose of building an independent birth control campaign, she and her followers became more susceptible than ever before to the anti-Black and anti-immigrant propaganda of the times. Like their predecessors, who had been deceived by the ‘race suicide’ propaganda, the advocates of birth control began to embrace that prevailing racist ideology" (p.396).

Yes, the whole "Sanger hated black people" canard was just baseless Communist agitprop, but it has now become a cornerstone of the pro-life movement and has somehow eluded fact-checkers and simple common sense to be repeated by the likes of Dinesh D'Souza and Tucker Carlson. 

If you've paid attention to everything that I wrote, you may be able to tell that I am indeed onto something here. Everything that you see in this article is true and verifiable. Today, the left and radical 3rd wave feminists are hellbent on their abortion-on-demand agenda, increasing the amount of single mothers, increasing poverty, and destroying the family. They aren't even trying to hide it anymore, and as the far left and radical feminists gain more power in this country, we all lose.

You don't need to be a Liberal or a Conservative to see Sanger's point: that we should help provide the underclass with a better life and reduce the negative impact they have on society, and that the left contributed to the issues we have today with the underclass. Yes, even Sanger would have hated radical feminists and the left.

And REMEMBER: Sanger does not have to be a saint for her critics to be liars.

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