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To: Mrs. Don-o

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But there are a lot of people defending this person and, if I have to engage, I want to make absolutely sure I’m accurate. I don’t want any misinterpretations.
Trying to prevent false rumors is one thing, while concealing genocidal intent is entirely another.


33 posted on 10/09/2018 1:30:42 PM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: Little Ray
You're right to want to be accurate about the quote, and to include the context. This quote is accurate, and the context is unedited: complete.

If that's not enough to prove intent, then you have to go for the bigger context: Sanger's political and professional colleagues and allies --- the people whose articles she solicited for Birth Control Review, who sponsored her talks, who subsidized The Negro Project and her clinic in Harlem --- who supported her masthead banner goal of "more children from the fit, less from the unfit."

Why were her millionaire friends avid to address the "Negro Problem" by contraception, sterilization and segregation rather than --- say ---education, employment, and ownership of productive capital?

Why did she switch her advocacy back and forth from voluntary to coercive means, depending on who she was talking to?

Sanger was not a solo operator, but part of a whole social-political network, and in all those decades (roughly 1915 - 1966) she never saw fit to distance herself from any of her racist eugenicist allies, not even those affiliated with German National Socialism.

Sanger invited Hitler's top racial advisor, Eugen Fischer, to lecture in the United States while her colleague, Lothrop Stoddard, went to Germany to meet Hitler. Stoddard, while associated with Sanger, wrote "The Rising Tide of Color against White World Supremacy."

Sanger' magazine published articles by Ernst Rudin, the infamous Nazi race specialist. That may be enough context to elucidate the direct quote, "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." Sanger is routinely portrayed by Planned Parenthood's allies as having a humanitarian concern for Jewish slum mothers like Sadie Sachs. They fail to mention that Sanger actively supported the anti-Semitic immigration restrictions keeping Jews out of the United States. Sanger even opposed maternity clinics which would have given Sadie Sachs and others like her the help she needed to bring her child safely into the world.

Sanger was opposed to every measure--- whether public program or private philanthropy --- which would help the poor survive. She opposed private and Church-funded charities as tyrannical, while at the same time demanding compulsory birth control, sterilization, exclusion and segregation for disfavored social and racial groups.

It's quite clear what she stood for, and whom she stood against.

34 posted on 10/09/2018 2:24:30 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Fasure.)
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