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Fox News Reinvents MLK as a Conservative Abortion Opponent

Cienna Madrid
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"But there is no small amount of irony in conservative populists invoking Martin Luther King - because some of their ideological ancestors were among his most vicious critics."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/20…
TechBear on January 16, 2012 at 3:45 PM Report this
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There is absolutely no way in hell that you could look at someone's position in the 1950s and early '60s and say "that's what they'd say today." The world has changed too much since then.

And yes, you can thank us Baby Boomers for that, although I'm sure you won't.
Fifty-Two-Eighty on January 16, 2012 at 4:02 PM Report this
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Once again, based on my interpretation of Genesis, I don't see how Social Conservatives get the high ground on any of these issues.

God pretty clearly says, Man gets dominion. Here's the keys to the car kid, don't forget to gas when you bring it back.

Rampantly laying waste and cramming too many people overfills the Earth and hence is not in the spirit of the edict.

I would think anyone could have fathomed that.
Supreme Ruler Of The Universe on January 16, 2012 at 4:27 PM Report this
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Dr. King received an award from the same person who said things like:

for the purpose of racial "purification," couples should be rewarded who chose sterilization. Birth Control in America, The Career of Margaret Sanger, by David Kennedy, p. 117, quoting a 1923 Sanger speech.

or...

"More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control." Birth Control Review, May 1919, p. 12

and...

The purpose in promoting birth control was "to create a race of thoroughbreds," she wrote in the Birth Control Review, Nov. 1921 (p. 2)

Irony? But I'm sure someone here will through up some bit of propaganda off Planned Parenthood's own website claiming how Margaret Sanger was not a psychopath eugenicist.
Spindles on January 16, 2012 at 4:43 PM Report this
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you seem a little testy, Cienna.
Have you not killed anything yet today?
on January 16, 2012 at 5:43 PM Report this
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@4 Man you're a trainwreck of a person.
OuterCow on January 16, 2012 at 5:47 PM Report this
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#4 - but those quotes only go back to 1919. You can't come up with any damning quotes from the 1800's? I'm sure Planned Parenthood's positions haven't changed at all in the last 89 years.
catsnbanjos on January 16, 2012 at 6:17 PM Report this
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@4
The only person "through" ing up propaganda here, is you.
Senor Guy on January 16, 2012 at 6:30 PM Report this
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"Some days I fantasize about how conservative Christians would react if, just once, a stray lightning bolt would smoke the shit out of a someone like Alveda King in the midst of a televised anti-abortion screed."

As fun as that fantasy is, Cienna, I doubt it would change many minds, because to the extent that they experience reality, it is subservient to and filtered through their ideology.

Bolt of lighting, spontaneous combustion, miraculous ascension into heaven, none of it matters all that much, as it either simply confirms their beliefs or it gets revised until it does.

Really, if the favorite grandmothers of every member of your fantasized conservatives suddenly appeared from Heaven, Hell, Fort Lauderdale, or where ever else they may be, and made a personal introduction of Jesus, I'd still bet that most of them would only be swayed to the extent that what Jesus says fits in their preexisting ideology.
on January 16, 2012 at 6:45 PM Report this
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Here's a fun fact for all of you. Did you know In April of 1933, Birth Control Review published an article by Dr. Ernst Rubin, who was Hitler's director of genetic sterilization and a founder of the Nazi Society for Racial Hygiene. In that article Dr. Rubin wrote: "The danger to the community of the unsegregated feeble-minded woman is more evident. Most dangerous are the middle and high grades living at large who, despite the fact that their defect is not easily recognizable, should nevertheless be prevented from procreation…In my view we should act without delay." (Prof. Dr. Ernst Rudin, "Eugenics Sterilization: An Urgent Need," Birth Control Review, Vol. XVII, Number 4, April 1933, pp. 102-4.)

http://library.lifedynamics.com/Birth%20…
Spindles on January 16, 2012 at 6:51 PM Report this
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I should add the founders of Planned Parenthood printed Dr. Rudin's article in the same year that he worked with SS chief Heinrich Himmler to draw up Germany's 1933 sterilization law, which called for the sterilization of all Jews and "colored" German children. The Nazi sterilization law bears a shocking resemblance to Margaret Sanger's own "Plan for Peace." printed in the April 1932 issue of her Birth Control Review.
Spindles on January 16, 2012 at 6:56 PM Report this
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If a eugenics program would have gotten Spindles dad a condom in time, I'd be for it.
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@12: http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/0000000…
venomlash on January 17, 2012 at 12:41 AM Report this
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In all fairness (and not to defend fox news), local liberals have also co-branded Mr King as someone he probably wasnt.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/lo…

"Braxton concluded his address with an amended version of King's "I have a dream" speech, adding "straight and gay" to King's vision of a world united across racial and economic lines."

Its subject to debate as to whether Mr King would have fought for equal rights for gays, yet alone tolerated them.
Kinison on January 17, 2012 at 6:16 AM Report this
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Correct, Kinison. In fact, the sole piece of writing we have from him on the subject (an old advice column from Ebony magazine) would lead one to believe he viewed homosexuality as an aberation.
Fifty-Two-Eighty on January 17, 2012 at 6:37 AM Report this

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