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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Replying to @eigenrobot
there's a perpetual effort to make "black people get lots of abortions and therefore legal abortion is racist" into the narrative, could try leaning into that
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Replying to @ded_ruckus @eigenrobot
'a certain group disproportionately does bad thing x (abortions). keeping it legal is bad' vs 'a certain group disproportionately does bad thing y (smoking menthol cigarettes). banning it is bad' ???
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Replying to @BellaRudd1 @eigenrobot
in practice I think the valence depends on the degree of perceived badness of the thing
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Replying to @ded_ruckus @eigenrobot
isn't that perception subject to frequent change though? weren't quite a few [quite possibly racially-motivated] restrictions on individual autonomy justified as being 'for their own good'?
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