i saw that the court is hearing some abortion case occurs to me that if you were inclined to overturn roe v wade probably the savviest time to do it is when the thing to be mad about du jour is race rather than sex
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tweets i already wish id locked anyway my position on this matter is clearhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1096302002449969152 …
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did occur to me that the right person could probably get away with saying "planned parenthood is white feminism" along the lines of that scott piece from a few days agohttps://twitter.com/ded_ruckus/status/1395482165962444801 …
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it's not like an organization founded by Margaret Sanger is a particularly difficult target for that line
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yeah people still havent reckoned with the early 20C eugenics movement everyone is just pretending it didnt happen and that the Best and Brightest in the country were uh just totally interested in social Progress via things that were not eugenics
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tbh I think the whole notion of "reckoning with" X past injustice is kind of fake -- doesn't usually seem to serve any purpose except to try to tar some modern faction with the stain of that injustice and thus who needs to "reckon with" what is just who wins the narrative fight
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i dont think its taught in high school american history courses at all
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it wasn't when I took APUSH roughly a decade ago Progressive Era was covered in that curriculum mostly as people who arose to make sensible reforms, with very little about underlying motives
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check out illiberal reformers by Leonard just about *everyone* in the Knowing Class was an aggressive eugenicist see also the actual textbook at question in Scopeshttps://timeline.com/evolution-scopes-trial-eugenics-6bbdb9f7515a?gi=adca1670ed7 …
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