tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post128105808382154519..comments2023-11-03T12:44:19.948+01:00Comments on Orwell's Picnic ~: A few little notes on the newsHilary Jane Margaret Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03771332473693479830noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-65432005637955892202012-02-27T05:57:28.211+01:002012-02-27T05:57:28.211+01:00It's one of those "everybody knows" ...It's one of those "everybody knows" things in the liberal miasma that links being pro-abortion and being anti-racist. (Because, you know, only CONSERVATIVES are racist, and CONSERVATIVES are anti-abortion. QED.)<br /><br />So the notion that abortion was and is disproportionately applied to black babies (and that this is no accident) is (a) news and (b) subversive to both the political and race-relational stereotypes in America.<br /><br />Yes, this is bizarre.<br /><br /><br />God have mercy,<br />ZachZachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07658949890957239166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-74834176789742338102012-02-25T12:50:02.235+01:002012-02-25T12:50:02.235+01:00I think the black pro-life movement is just the re...I think the black pro-life movement is just the result of a community waking up and realizing what's happening to their communities. I also agree with Ingemar; the point of fillintheblank politics is to make evil oppressors realize other people have "valid" reasons for doing things we'd rather they didn't (like kill children). It's basically a tool for causing division.AngelaGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13163323340978496793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-29717987464779006742012-02-24T20:13:06.430+01:002012-02-24T20:13:06.430+01:00I think "what you think as a _____" (ins...I think "what you think as a _____" (insert in the blank: woman, minority, homosexual) questions are a prod to find what self-serving intentions a person has for engaging in an activity.<br /><br />Not that the self service is WRONG (in their eyes) but that it makes it more RIGHT.Ingemarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-42475524168938695672012-02-24T19:19:56.384+01:002012-02-24T19:19:56.384+01:00Two thoughts:
And finally, what the hell differenc...Two thoughts:<br /><i>And finally, what the hell difference does it make what colour you are? Isn't there something... well... racist about the 'black pro-life movement' altogether? </i><br /><br />At least in America, a disproportionate number of abortions are performed on black women, and Planned Parenthood targets blacks for abortion. While there is something unseemly about assuming that abortion would be okay if it happened more uniformly, I think that the essence of the black pro-life movement, as well as the feminist pro-life movement, is pointing out how these policies result in dead children <i>and</i> harm those they are (allegedly) trying to help. <br /><br />Here in America, it is assumed that pro-lifers are wealthy (or at least middle-class) older white men, because <i>naturally</i> everyone who doesn't occupy a privileged place in society ought to support abortion. Part of the war is fighting that assumption.<br /><br /><i>I had absolutely no idea what she meant. I don't think things "as a woman". I just think things.</i><br /><br />Interestingly, that "as a woman" mentally presupposes that there is a "normal" (i.e. male) way to think, and then an "as a woman" way to think, peculiar to our second sex.bridgetnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-61400377719928121362012-02-24T19:14:34.481+01:002012-02-24T19:14:34.481+01:00Hello! Jumping out of lurkerdom to add that the wa...Hello! Jumping out of lurkerdom to add that the way I took the 'black pro-life' thingy was to mean 'black people banding together to promote the pro-life cause'. If a movement is or seems to be predominantly white, sometimes a group will spring up which says 'black people think this too!' and is tacked onto the wider movement. I think. No comment on whether that's a good or bad thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-26611479538996488872012-02-24T17:13:41.329+01:002012-02-24T17:13:41.329+01:00What is interesting is that you might have a point...What is interesting is that you might have a point of intersection with the Thomistic account of moral actions: the secular culture would say that only the intention and/or circumstances makes an act good or bad, rather than including the object of the act (the thing itself being done). Very interesting.Sylviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06221464682706193091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-32926858118035556612012-02-24T15:51:04.924+01:002012-02-24T15:51:04.924+01:00My best guess is that the moral intuition your bla...My best guess is that the moral intuition your black-pro-life video people are pointing to is that, if one kills an unborn baby for being black, one is compounding the sin of murder with the heresy of racism. It's not that the murder itself is worse, it's that there are two sins being committed. And racism in all its shapes is really an excuse for murder, anyways.<br /><br />Beyond that, me neither: I don't understand American race issues. The most cogent thing I've read on the subject was <i>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</i>, and I understand <i>Showboat</i> has more to say; but the world has changed since then.a Christophernoreply@blogger.com