America's "Fascist Moment" - Margaret Sanger Co-Stars in New Book by Jonah Goldberg

The Truth About Margaret Sanger ^ | Friday, January 04, 2008 | Ron Radosh

[Diago]

According to a book review by Ron Radosh in today's New York Sun, Margaret Sanger is featured prominently in Jonah Goldberg's new book, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning .

Here is a brief excerpt from Radosh's review:

Turning to what he calls liberal racism, Mr. Goldberg offers readers his finest chapter. It is a devastating picture of how liberals adopted eugenics — a basic part of Nazi doctrine — which was not, as some liberal intellectuals have argued, an outgrowth of conservative thought. Fans of Margaret Sanger, perhaps the single most important feminist hero of the 20th century, will never be able to think of her in the same way. Mr. Goldberg dissects her hidden views of eugenics. A socialist and birth-control martyr, she favored banning reproduction of the "unfit" and regulation of everyone else's reproduction. She wrote, "More children from the fit, less from the unfit — that is the chief issue of birth control." She opposed the birth of "ill-bred, ill-trained swarms of inferior citizens." Her words reveal her motive in advocacy of birth control. She sought to remove "inferior" people from being born to poor people, whose mothers by definition were "unfit." Sanger's partisans in Planned Parenthood, the group that stemmed from her work, will be shocked to learn that her publication endorsed the Nazi eugenics program, and that Sanger herself "proudly gave a speech to a KKK rally." That was not surprising, since she clearly viewed blacks as inferior. Hence her "Negro Project," in which she sought to urge blacks to adopt birth control.

[Old Sarge]

And no one will ever read it outside the blogosphere

[farmer18th]

It's ironic that even by this racist logic, her goals have been turned on their head: the white Protestant folk she sought to favor have been having less babies--with birth control and abortion cheap and readily available. The Black, Catholic, and Muslim folk she sought to exterminate have been having babies like mad. The up and coming Huxtable type Black folk, like the Obama family, are decreasing and the intergenerational welfare black folk are increasing. Even conservative protestant minsters like J. Vernon McGhie taught "multiply and replenish" as being outdated, and the fell into the Margaret Sanger demonic net.

Oh what a tangled web we weave when we try hard not to conceive.

[joebuck]

"conservative protestant minsters like J. Vernon McGhie taught "multiply and replenish" as being outdated"

Do you have a reference for this? I don't think he mentions anything like this in his "Thru The Bible" commentary series. I'm not disputing you, I've just always liked J. Vernon's folksy pastoral style and I'd be interested in reading about this further.

[farmer18th]

I heard his through the Bible sermons on the radio quite a bit and I remember that sermon specifically, though I don’t remember the chapter he was covering—probably Genesis. He was very adamant about “multiply and replenish” not applying to New Testament believers. (It would be interesting to see how many children he had.)