The Queen of Liberal Fascism: Margaret Sanger

NRO has a great excerpt today from Goldberg's book: Liberal Fascism. It deals with his chapter on Margaret Sanger.

Read it here: A Dark PastContraception, abortion, and the eugenics movement.

I'll have some comments on this later.

Under the banner of “reproductive freedom,” Sanger subscribed to nearly all of the eugenic views discussed above. She sought to ban reproduction of the unfit and regulate reproduction for everybody else. She scoffed at the soft approach of the “positive” eugenicists, deriding it as mere “cradle competition” between the fit and the unfit. “More children from the fit, less from the unfit — that is the chief issue of birth control,” she frankly wrote in her 1922 book The Pivot of Civilization. (The book featured an introduction by Wells, in which he proclaimed, “We want fewer and better children...and we cannot make the social life and the world-peace we are determined to make, with the ill-bred, ill-trained swarms of inferior citizens that you inflict on us.” Two civilizations were at war: that of progress and that which sought a world “swamped by an indiscriminate torrent of progeny.”

A fair-minded person cannot read Sanger’s books, articles, and pamphlets today without finding similarities not only to Nazi eugenics but to the dark dystopias of the feminist imagination found in such allegories as Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale. As editor of The Birth Control Review, Sanger regularly published the sort of hard racists we normally associate with Goebbels or Himmler. Indeed, after she resigned as editor, The Birth Control Review ran articles by people who worked for Goebbels and Himmler. For example, when the Nazi eugenics program was first getting wide attention, The Birth Control Review was quick to cast the Nazis in a positive light, giving over its pages for an article titled “Eugenic Sterilization: An Urgent Need,” by Ernst Rüdin, Hitler’s director of sterilization and a founder of the Nazi Society for Racial Hygiene. In 1926 Sanger proudly gave a speech to a KKK rally in Silver Lake, New Jersey.

One of Sanger’s closest friends and influential colleagues was the white supremacist Lothrop Stoddard, author of The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy. In the book he offered his solution for the threat posed by the darker races: “Just as we isolate bacterial invasions, and starve out the bacteria, by limiting the area and amount of their food supply, so we can compel an inferior race to remain in its native habitat.” When the book came out, Sanger was sufficiently impressed to invite him to join the board of directors of the American Birth Control League.

Prolife Victory in Ireland

From Hidden Ireland:

The Irish REJECT The Lisbon Treaty: God Save Ireland Cried The Heroes…..!!!

On this Feast day of St Anthony…..
Thank You Ireland!
Dear St Anthony Pray for us!
Dear St Patrick Pray for us!
Dear St Bridget Pray for us!
Immaculate Heart of Mary Pray for us!
Holy Face of Jesus we love you!
St Simon of Trent Pray for us!
Saints and Angels a million thanks for this mercy obtained!

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And they are celebrating at Angelqueen.

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And the Catholic Answers Forums

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And Freerepublic

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And Pro Ecclesia:

Ireland Sticks a Fork in Plans for EU Power Grab; Tells Elitists in Brussels to Pound Sand

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And the very wise Lew Rockwell:

Heroic Ireland

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And Sunlit Uplands Nails It:

IRELAND SAVES EUROPE

Thank You Ireland! Millions Are in Your Debt!

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And the Good folks at Investors Business Daily:

Ireland's Ire

The Irish had the nerve to vote "no" on the 287 pages of gobbledygook called the Lisbon Treaty. But fanatical Eurocrats, eager to take what's left of sovereignty from Europe's nations, won't let democracy stop them.

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Many centuries ago, Irish monks saved Europe from itself by preserving the moral and intellectual foundations of civilization. Unfortunately, the continental powers are unlikely to let the Irish save Europe from itself a second time.

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Most Importantly:

The IRISH CELEBRATE!

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But will this be like an American school levy, where they will put it on the ballot every three months for a vote, and use our tax dollars to promote, until after seven tries and seven defeats...it finally passes and there are no more votes on the issue.

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And Could the Latin Mass Save Civilization?

The Donegal Express Tries to Fathom Catholics Donating to Planned Parenthood

Where am I? What am I doing here? Did I fall through some sort of weird wormhole that only the Suburban Banshee from Aliens In This World can get me out of?

Take a look at the Donegal Express:

The great Ross Carter, of the Clinic For Planned Parenthood.

Daniel J. Flynn on America's Racist Left

Daniel Flynn has a brilliant article over at National Review, America's Racist LeftInstead of merely ignoring the problems of African Americans, socialists and progressives actively contributed to them.

“There can be no doubt that the negroes and mulattoes constitute a lower race,” Victor Berger, long the Socialist Party’s lone congressman, contended. “You know that capitalism never examines the color of the skin when it buys labor power,” the party’s national committeeman from Texas complained. When socialists acknowledged racial discrimination, they paternalistically counseled black Americans to abandon their selfish “personal” struggle for the “universal” struggle of the class war, which, when won, would magically solve all problems.


Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger spoke at a 1926 Ku Klux Klan rally, used the “n” word in reference to blacks, and deemed Aboriginal Australians “the lowest known species of the human family, just a step higher than the chimpanzee in brain development.” “The Jewish people and Italian families,” she testified to the New York legislature, “who are filling the insane asylums, who are filling the hospitals and filling our feeble-minded institutions, these are the ones the tax payers have to pay for the upkeep of, and they are increasing the budget of the State, the enormous expense of the State is increasing because of the multiplication of the unfit in this country and in the State.”

Protein Wisdom Takes a Look at Margaret Sanger and Liberal Facism

Over 500 comments discussing Margaret Sanger, Liberal Facism and Jonah Goldberg over at Protein Wisdom.