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Yeah, I suppose this really could be E&C.

Hey, it's Raquel (Tejada) Welch on CNN. Awesome.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/05/ ... index.html

Raquel Welch wrote:Seriously, folks, if an aging sex symbol like me starts waving the red flag of caution over how low moral standards have plummeted, you know it's gotta be pretty bad. In fact, it's precisely because of the sexy image I've had that it's important for me to speak up and say: Come on girls! Time to pull up our socks! We're capable of so much better.

She is waving a flag that without doubt was waved by the older generation when she was younger, and, just like this generation will do to her, she didn't listen.

I notice they mentioned Margaret Sanger right off the bat.

Margaret Sanger founder of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, who was a proponent of forced eugenics, segregation, abortion, birth control and sexual immorality. Here are some of her quotes.

\"The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.\"

\"Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.\"

\"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the 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.\"

\"Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.\"

\"Eugenics is … the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.\"

As an advocate of birth control I wish ... to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,' admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation....
On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.\"

\"The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.\"

\"Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying ... demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism ... [Philanthropists] encourage the healthier and more normal sections of the world to shoulder the burden of unthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of others; which brings with it, as I think the reader must agree, a dead weight of human waste. Instead of decreasing and aiming to eliminate the stocks that are most detrimental to the future of the race and the world, it tends to render them to a menacing degree dominant ... We are paying for, and even submitting to, the dictates of an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all.\"

\"The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.\"

\"The third group [of society] are those irresponsible and reckless ones having little regard for the consequences of their acts, or whose religious scruples prevent their exercising control over their numbers. Many of this group are diseased, feeble-minded, and are of the pauper element dependent upon the normal and fit members of society for their support. There is no doubt in the minds of all thinking people that the procreation of this group should be stopped.\"

Article is stupid. I'll simmer it down:
"Back in my day i had to walk to school 10 miles in the snow with no shoes, it built character. I want kids to experience my pain, coz pain is awesome - just look at what Jesus did."

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Heretic wrote:I notice they mentioned Margaret Sanger right off the bat.

you are right.

The article wrote:Margaret Sanger opened the first American family-planning clinic

And that was the only time Margaret Sanger was ever mentioned in the whole article.
Why you wrote an essay in response, no-one but your constituency will ever know.

What's wrong roid are you afraid of the truth. Nothing was mention about the \"The Pill\" right. The way she was wanting to use \"The Pill\" to control certain type of people in the population. Applied Eugenics any one. Don't blame me for the article that brings up Margaret Sanger and the pill. Oh by the way you know now and you are not part of my constituency.

what exactly did your post have to do with the article beside superfluous expansion on superfluous name dropping Heretic?

fliptw wrote:what exactly did your post have to do with the article beside superfluous expansion on superfluous name dropping Heretic?

So how is that word a day calendar working for you dude? So what part of Ethics and Commentary don't you understand. Ethically Margaret Sanger was a very dangerous person. My Commentary of Margaret Sanger was an explanatory essay of her unethical behavior. So now I suppose I'm not to make Commentary remarks about the Ethics of a person in Ethics and Commentary thread of an article that mentions certain people? Oh by the way you could have used one of these words.

bounding, de trop, dispensable, excess, excessive, exorbitant, expendable, extravagant, extreme, gratuitous, in excess, inessential, inordinate, lavish, leftover, needless, nonessential, overflowing, overmuch, pleonastic, profuse, redundant, remaining, residuary, spare, superabundant, supererogatory, superfluent, supernumerary, surplus, unasked, uncalled-for, unneeded, unrequired, unwanted, useless

Instead of your word a day. Oh wait that was horrifying superfluous of me to suggest you use another word.

So in essence, nothing.

fliptw wrote:So in essence, nothing.

So Margaret Sanger wasn't mentioned in the article? Nor the pill? Seems to me I had something to say about both of those things and how she want to use the pill to weed out certain people.

Except that Margaret Sanger didn't write the article nor was she the subject of it.

So do you really care that much or just trying to troll because I expounded on the roll of Margaret Sanger with the development of the pill. It would be really hard for some who has been dead since September 6, 1966 to write an article don't you think? Which also lead to the sexual revolution that Raquel Welch wrote about in the article.

Heretic, I understood the connection, so did others, stop defending yourself.

Aye Aye Sir