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Mon. Aug.21, 2017
~All Gave Some~Some Gave All~ God Bless America~
Jerry Lewis, RIP
RIP --- Comedian, Civil Rights Activist Dick Gregory Dies at 84
Al Sharpton Threatens Jefferson Memorial: An 'Insult To My Family'
"You have private museums..."
ByPAUL BOIS @PaulBois39
Rev. Al Sharpton, the man who told Jews to "pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house," lamented to Charlie Rose about the pain he feels over the Jefferson Memorial, calling it an "insult to my family." Many Jews would probably say the same thing about seeing the man who sparked a riot in 1991 that led to the death of one Jewish student be given a platform on national television, including his own show on MSNBC.
Speaking with Charlie Rose about the current SJW trend across the country in which packs of angry marauders destroy public property by tearing down Confederate monuments, Al Sharpton, of course, endorsed the monuments' removal. When Rose shifted the argument to the Jefferson Memorial, Sharpton put the former president on notice.
"When you look at the fact that public monuments are supported by public funds, you’re asking me to subsidize the insult of my family," Sharpton said. "I would repeat that the public should not be paying to uphold somebody who has had that kind of background. You have private museums, you have other things that you may want to do there."
Except you cannot just put the Jefferson Memorial in a museum. It's its own museum, it's its own structure. What on earth is he talking about? Does he really want to take a bulldozer to this?
Sharpton, however, provided an interesting glimpse behind the curtain regarding President Trump's response to the attack in Charlottesville. Recalling his own days of dealing with "extremists" that resorted to violence on his watch, Sharpton seemed to reveal a guilty conscience."In my own career wrestled, you’ve got to deal openly and say, 'no, I’m not gonna be with those elements, I’m not going to deal with violence,'" he said. "I've had to deal with that. I'm not saying anything that a lot of public officials haven’t had to struggle with, which is why I’m saying, he knows better. Every one of us knows when you're around extremists that you need to say, 'Wait a minute, I'm going to part company.'"
But Sharpton never really parted company with the "extremists" in his ranks, at least not in his rhetoric. He has always engaged in extreme rhetoric that divides white and black Americans by playing on the same identity politics the alt-right has adopted.
His role in the 1991 Crown Heights riots was riling up a mad mob with Jew hatred after a black youth was accidentally killed by a Jew driving a car. He said this at the black youth's funeral: "Talk about how Oppenheimer in South Africa sends diamonds straight to Tel Aviv and deals with the diamond merchants right here in Crown Heights. The issue is not anti-Semitism; the issue is apartheid. ... All we want to say is what Jesus said: If you offend one of these little ones, you got to pay for it. No compromise, no meetings, no coffee klatsch, no skinnin' and grinnin'."
That mob rioted in Crown Heights for three days and murdered a rabbinical student.
The closest Sharpton has ever come to an apology, which was not one, is when he said: "Our language and tone sometimes exacerbated tensions and played to the extremists."
If vandals graffiti "Black Lives Matter" on the Jefferson Memorial tomorrow, well then, "here's looking at you, Sharpton."
When will Mount Rushmore come under attack by the lunatic left?Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest and the KKK
By Ben Phelan
In June 2008 a ROADSHOW guest named Ellen Dashiell Lentz and appraiser Christopher Mitchell discussed a collection of Confederate memorabilia that had been passed down to Ellen through three generations of her family. The items included several veterans ribbons, a photograph of Ellen's great-grandfather, George Dashiell, and an 1875 letter to her great-grandmother from Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, one of the most famous — and controversial — figures to emerge from the entire American Civil War.
The reputation of General Forrest, under whom Ellen's great-grandfather served during the latter half of the war, has come to be defined by two infamous, yet brief, chapters in his life: his controversial assault on the Union-held Fort Pillow in 1864; and his post-war involvement with the first incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan. So closely is Forrest's name associated with the Klan, in fact, that he is sometimes incorrectly referred to as its founder. If not for these two black marks on his reputation, the ribbons and regalia appraised by Christopher Mitchell at around $10,000 would undoubtedly be quite a bit more valuable. Though totally uneducated, Forrest was a demonically gifted military commander and tactician, a legend in his own time. He was the only man on either side to rise from the rank of private to that of general during the four-year conflict. Robert E. Lee and William Tecumseh Sherman called him the most remarkable man, and finest soldier, produced by the war.
Forrest and his 10 siblings grew up well beyond the edge of the civilized world, in a two-room cabin in the middle of Tennessee. His father was a blacksmith and subsistence farmer, his mother a virtual giantess at six feet. Forrest survived the typhoid that killed half his siblings, including his twin, and at 21 left home to become a planter and slave trader in Memphis. He soon became one of the wealthiest men in the South. In 1861, when he was 40 years old, Tennessee seceded from the Union. The survival of the South, and of Forrest's livelihood, were suddenly thrown into doubt, and Forrest joined the Confederate Army.
His violent temper was perfected in the theater of war: he immediately distinguished himself as a natural military genius. Sherman confessed to being perpetually flummoxed by Forrest's feral cunning and exhausted by his energy. In his first engagement, in Kentucky, Forrest defeated a Union force twice the size of his own. In subsequent battles, he took on and defeated, time and again, larger, better-equipped, and more thoroughly trained forces, often by dint of subterfuge and deceit — more than once he tricked Union commanders into surrendering to his smaller force — but just as often by ferocity and shrewdness. He fought alongside his troops, and by the end of the war had personally killed 30 enemy soldiers. His own horses fared only a little better. He had 29 shot from underneath him, sometimes one within minutes of its ill-fated successor. He was wounded four times, two bullets coming to rest near his spine.
In the spring of 1864, low on provisions, Forrest attacked and captured Fort Pillow, a garrison north of Memphis. The incident became perhaps the most controversial military action in the Civil War, as Forrest had at his command more than twice as many soldiers as were occupying the fort, about half of whom were recently freed slaves. Surrounded and outnumbered, the Union forces declined to surrender, and, typically, Forrest was ruthless. His men overran Fort Pillow, taking few prisoners. The Union called the battle a massacre. Forrest would later appear before Congress to defend himself against charges of war crimes, and though he was found not guilty, he was known to many, for the rest of his life, as the Butcher of Fort Pillow.
Post-War Years in Tennessee
After the war, Forrest returned to a devastated Tennessee and publicly advocated for peaceful submission to the victorious Union. But he was not the beneficiary of a sudden racial enlightenment, nor did he submit entirely to the new world order, one characterized by the societal tumult of Reconstruction and the removal of the Southern economy's cornerstone. Perhaps blacks were no longer slaves, but, Forrest believed, they had to remain the South's docile workforce, for their own good as well as his. "I am not an enemy of the negro," Forrest said. "We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have."
Meanwhile, in Pulaski, Tennessee, six Confederate veterans had formed, as a lark, a secret society that they whimsically dubbed the Ku Klux Klan (from the Greek word for circle, kuklos — they evidently liked the mystical ring of the alliterated k's.) At first, the six men and their recruits undertook non-violent, theatrical stunts to frighten back into line the freed slaves just beginning to assert their new rights. But soon enough, more men joined the KKK and, as Republican efforts to rehabilitate Southern society grew more concerted, the KKK became a violent, marauding organization whose individual "dens" answered to no centralized authority. Society was changing quickly, and the KKK was trying to slow the pace. Bodies of freedmen, their white supporters, and Republicans began to litter the roadside.
It was at about this time that Forrest, learning of the KKK, expressed a desire to join. The eminent recruit was elected grand wizard, the Klan's highest official, and tried to bring the rapidly multiplying dens under a centralized authority — his own. Forrest probably did not object to the violence, per se, as a means of restoring the pre-war hierarchy, but as a military man, he deplored the lack of discipline and structure that defined the growing KKK. In its methods and aims, the KKK was merely the avenging ghost of the Confederate army. To Forrest's dismay, though, it was not an army that he could command.
After only a year as Grand Wizard, in January 1869, faced with an ungovernable membership employing methods that seemed increasingly counterproductive, Forrest issued KKK General Order Number One: "It is therefore ordered and decreed, that the masks and costumes of this Order be entirely abolished and destroyed." By the end of his life, Forrest's racial attitudes would evolve — in 1875, he advocated for the admission of blacks into law school — and he lived to fully renounce his involvement with the all-but-vanished Klan. A new, different, and much worse Klan would emerge, 35 years after Forrest's death, in the wake of D.W. Griffith's revolutionary 1915 film, Birth of a Nation, a reactionary screed with a racialist brief that had been expanded to include Catholics and immigrants of all kinds. The second Klan was never restricted to the South; its goals had nothing to do with Forrest's vision of a restored Dixie.
Nathan Bedford Forrest was a product of a divided society in which acts of racism were often considered good Christian behavior. He always suffered from a wild temper, bullied his subordinates and even his commanding officers, and was extremely violent. He grew up impoverished to a degree that few of us can imagine, and by ruthlessness and hard work rose to become one of the four or five most important actors in the American Civil War. Contemporary critics complained that he was ungallant, uncouth, and uneducated, not a grand Southern gentleman such as Robert E. Lee. Forrest himself would not have argued the point. But as a military mind and as a cultural artifact, Forrest is indispensable to a full understanding of the period.
Alabama Senate Poll: Roy Moore, with Majority Support, Takes Commanding Lead over Luther Strange
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A new poll shows former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore with a commanding lead over Luther Strange, the Washington establishment backed candidate, heading into the GOP primary runoff for the Alabama U.S. Senate seat left open this year.
The poll from JMC Analytics provided to Breitbart News ahead of its public release shows Moore with 51 percent, a majority, supporting him, while Strange trails nearly 20 points behind with just 32 percent—and 17 percent are undecided. Moore’s commanding lead comes after he outperformed polls to finish around 39 percent in a multi-way primary this past Tuesday. Strange finished the first round of voting with just under 33 percent, and this poll seems to indicate that Moore is the only candidate gaining more votes while Strange is stuck with a ceiling of what he got on primary day before the runoff.
See the polling in full by following the link here: Alabama Senate Republican Executive Summary Runoff Poll 1 (1)
Strange was appointed into the seat vacated by now Attorney General Jeff Sessions under questionable circumstances earlier this year by now former Gov. Robert Bentley. Strange was, at the time, the attorney general of Alabama and conducting an investigation into Bentley. Bentley was later forced to resign as a result of what Strange was investigating. His appointment-created incumbency, however, did little to help him in the first round of voting–and his powerful allies in Washington were unable to push him into first place in the first round of voting. Now that he is trailing significantly with just over a month to go before the runoff, with his opponent Moore securing for now a majority of the electorate, the future looks grim for Strange.
This latest JMC Analytics poll was conducted from August 17 to 19, with a 95 percent confidence interval and a 4.3 percent margin of error. That means Moore’s commanding lead with a majority of support in Alabama is far outside the margin of error in this poll, making him the clear GOP frontrunner walking into election day on September 26. The survey had 515 respondents.
In the primary’s first round, a group run by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s allies called Senate Leadership Fund spent nearly $10 million to back Strange with vicious attack ads against Moore and against fellow conservative Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL). The attack ads, filled with mostly false information, largely backfired since they—and a questionable endorsement from President Donald Trump—were not enough to get Strange across the finish line into first place. Normally, with that kind of money and an endorsement from the president himself, someone would finish in first place in a multi-way race.
This survey neither Trump’s endorsement nor McConnell’s backing is helping Strange much at all. When asked if Trump’s endorsement of Strange made respondents more or less likely to vote for him, 23 percent said less likely while 25 percent said more likely and 51 percent said no difference at all.
When asked if McConnell’s help with millions backing Strange made respondents more or less likely to vote for Strange, 45 percent said less likely while only 10 percent said more likely. Forty-six percent said no difference.
“There are three main takeaways from this poll: (1) former Chief Justice Roy Moore surges into an early runoff lead due to support from a substantial number of those who did not support either runoff contender in the August 15 primary, (2) evangelical support is fueling Moore’s initial runoff lead, and (3) both President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s endorsements are not helping Senator Strange,” JMC Analytics pollster John Couvillon wrote in his analysis of the data.
Couvillon’s last poll of the primary right before the first round of voting caught the trend of the race exactly right, as it showed Moore trending upwards into the 30s and Brooks right at 19 percent—where he finished—and it showed Strange struggling in deep second place. Brooks had tried to break out and the second place spot was trending his way until Trump’s endorsement of Strange stunted his growth and gave Strange a last-second boost to hold him in a far-distant embarrassing second-place finish.
Moore is winning almost everywhere statewide now, too, Couvillon writes, adding that he is also consolidating support from the other candidates in the first round of the race. In total, in addition to Brooks, the August 15 first round had a number of other candidates. Outside of Moore and Strange—the two who made the runoff—there is a whopping nearly 30 percent up for grabs. Interestingly, that also means that Strange—with an endorsement from Trump and more than $10 million spent on his behalf—was rejected by more than 67 percent of the Alabama GOP electorate.
“In the ballot test, Roy Moore has substantial leads across all of the state’s media markets except Mobile,” Couvillon writes now. “It also looks like the support of the defeated primary candidates has initially moved to Moore: not only did those supporting the ‘also rans’ say they support Moore 51-26%, but (to use a readily apparent example), ‘Mo’ Brooks’ Huntsville base has largely realigned itself with Moore, where he has a 52-29% lead. What also appears to be fueling Moore’s surge in post primary support is the substantial difference in support depending on whether the respondent self-identified as an evangelical Christian. Among that group, Moore has a 58-28% lead over Senator Strange, while among non-evangelicals, Strange has a narrow 42-39% lead.”
Despite this poll, this race is by no means over at this stage. McConnell’s allies are likely to, since they already dumped millions into backing Strange, go all in with tens of millions more.
“We congratulate Big Luther Strange for closing the gap in the final week and positioning himself well for the runoff,” Senate Leadership Fund’s Steven Law, an acolyte of the very anti-Trump Karl Rove, said in a statement on election night. “We are proud to have strongly supported President Trump’s number-one ally in this race, and we believe the President’s support will be decisive as we head into the next phase of this campaign, which Senator Strange will win in September.”
The next morning, Trump seemed to hedge his backing of Strange by congratulating both Moore and Strange via Twitter.
Congratulation to Roy Moore and Luther Strange for being the final two and heading into a September runoff in Alabama. Exciting race!
It remains to be seen what the president may or may not do for Strange–or for Moore–moving forward ahead of the Sept. 26 runoff.
Bannon Destroys Lib Narrative With Epic 5-Word Exit
The unexpected departure of Steve Bannon from the White House this week has drawn cheers from the left and the mainstream media — but they might be celebrating too soon.
Bannon’s departure has been painted as a victory against the controversial strategist. However, his plans for the immediate future should send chills down the backs of any opponent of Donald Trump.
Far from indicating a split between Trump and Bannon — the dominant media narrative — Bannon said his departure from the White House made his top priority possible.
The right-leaning mogul is back at what he does best, and his plans were summarized with just five words: “Going to war for Trump.”
“If there’s any confusion out there, let me clear it up: I’m leaving the White House and going to war for Trump against his opponents — on Capitol Hill, in the media, and in corporate America,” Bannon announced to Bloomberg on Friday.
That statement came just hours after it was revealed that Bannon had resigned as an official member of Trump’s advisory team.
Controversial but extremely successful media outlet Breitbart News confirmed that Bannon was coming back to the lead that outlet’s team. The man who is seen as one of the key players of Trump’s unexpected 2016 victory spoke as if he was gearing up for an upcoming battle.
“Now I’m free. I’ve got my hands back on my weapons,” Bannon said, according to Newsmax.
“Someone said, ‘it’s Bannon the Barbarian.’ I am definitely going to crush the opposition. There’s no doubt,” the outspoken media mogul said.
“I built a f—ing machine at Breitbart. And now I’m about to go back, knowing what I know, and we’re about to rev that machine up. And rev it up we will do.”
Bannon’s exit was seen by many pundits as the fallout from a clash at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The administration has struggled to keep key positions filled, and high-profile turnovers for titles such as the White House chief of staff and press secretary.
Although there’s no doubt that the personnel drama has been a distraction, Bannon’s return to Breitbart could be a sign that President Trump’s team is finally settling down and acknowledging its strengths.
Bannon’s most successful role has been as a smart and driven attack dog who is able to use conservative media to Trump’s advantage… and now that he’s back at the company he helped build, it would be a mistake to think that he’s out of the game.
When it comes to the 45th president, naysayers and critics have repeatedly been proven wrong. Neither polls nor pundits have been able to predict his political success, and the Trump Train hasn’t been derailed yet.
One thing is certain: The 2018 and 2020 elections will definitely not be boring.
News On Bannon's Next Move
While Steve Bannon may be out at the White House, his power in America's political landscape will likely remain in tact.
On Friday, Breitbart News announced that Former White House Strategist Steve Bannon returned to his old post at the online news site.
It sounds like it didn't take long for him to get to work either.
Breitbart reported Bannon chaired the company's Friday afternoon editorial meeting.
This places Bannon in charge of one of the most influential right-wing websites in the country. According to their self-reported statistics they received more than 200 million page views in the month leading up the 2016 election.
How Breitbart decides to cover the White House and American politics will have a big effect on how Trump is perceived.
Luckily for the President sources close to Bannon have told the media that he will "go to war" for the Trump agenda.
On Friday, Breitbart News announced that Former White House Strategist Steve Bannon returned to his old post at the online news site.
It sounds like it didn't take long for him to get to work either.
Breitbart reported Bannon chaired the company's Friday afternoon editorial meeting.
This places Bannon in charge of one of the most influential right-wing websites in the country. According to their self-reported statistics they received more than 200 million page views in the month leading up the 2016 election.
How Breitbart decides to cover the White House and American politics will have a big effect on how Trump is perceived.
Luckily for the President sources close to Bannon have told the media that he will "go to war" for the Trump agenda.
Mattis: President Trump has settled on new Afghan strategy
Aug. 20 (UPI) — U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Sunday President Donald Trump has decided on a strategy to deal with the 16-year-old war in Afghanistan.
Mattis would not give details on the plans, but said the president settled on a new strategy after a “rigorous” review.
“The president has made a decision,” Mattis told reporters on an overnight flight that arrived in Amman, Jordan, on Sunday. “I am very comfortable that the strategic process was sufficiently rigorous.”
On Friday, Trump met with his national security team, including Mattis, at Camp David in Maryland.
Trump, who returned to his golf course in Bedminster, N.J., later that day, posted Saturday on Twitter: “Important day spent at Camp David with our very talented generals and military leaders. Many decisions made, including on Afghanistan.”
Trump press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Friday a new strategy would “protect America’s interests” in the South Asian region and details would be forthcoming.
Mattis told reporters the White House will reveal the plans and hence he won’t talk about the new policy.
“It is a South Asia strategy; not just an Afghanistan strategy,” Mattis said, indicating it will also include Pakistan and India.
In June, Mattis was given authority to send nearly 4,000 troops to Afghanistan to advise and support Afghan forces. Mattis held off expanding the American forces.
Other options include withdrawing them altogether, leaving private military contractors to help manage security.
An estimated 9,800 American troops are in Afghanistan, mostly assigned to an international force of about 13,000 assisting the Afghan military.
In February, Gen. John Nicholson, the commander of the American-led international force in Afghanistan, told Congress that the United States and its NATO allies were facing a “stalemate.”
Mattis met with Jordan’s King Abdullah, as well as top Jordanian defense officials, and is scheduled to go Wednesday to Turkey where he will meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other leaders.
“Secretary Mattis will emphasize the steadfast commitment of the United States to Turkey as a NATO ally and strategic partner, seek to collaborate on efforts to advance regional stability, and look for ways to help Turkey address its legitimate security concerns — including the fight against the PKK,” the Pentagon said in a statement Friday.
The PKK, also known as the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, is listed as a terrorist group by the United States and many European nations, and has been leading an insurgency against the Turkish government since 1984.
Mattis plans to meet with Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak and President Petro Poroshenko in Kiev Thursday. The Trump administration is considering providing lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian-backed separatists.
“During these engagements, the secretary will reassure our Ukrainian partners that the U.S. remains firmly committed to the goal of restoring Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” the Pentagon statement said.
Nazis Support Abortion, Gun Control, And Speech Codes. That Describes The Left
At every level, the beliefs and goals of the white supremacist, alt-right, Nazi movement directly oppose conservatism.
“Godwin’s Law of Nazi Analogies” hold that “as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.” Attorney Mike Godwin, who coined the self-named law, explained “the comparisons trivialize the horror of the Holocaust and the social pathology of the Nazis.”
But what if the Nazi analogy is apt, such as when white supremacists march under the flag of the Third Reich? Some posed that question to Godwin after the violence at this month’s march in Charlottesville left scores injured and three dead—including two law enforcement officers killed in a helicopter crash while responding to the escalating violence.
Godwin responded with a simple, unequivocal message: “By all means, compare these sh-theads to the Nazis. Again and again. I’m with you.” Yes, they are Nazis, through and through, as Cathy Young demonstrated a little over a year ago when she dissected the alt-right’s views in her Federalist article, “You Can’t Whitewash The Alt-Right’s Bigotry.” Young invited readers to swipe through “the movement’s online hubs,” such as RadixJournal which reincarnates the shuttered Richard Spencer outlet AlternativeRight.com.
The violence in Charlottesville has brought a renewed focus on the writings of the alt-right at RadixJournal. Professor Robert P. George, whose Twitter feed has led the charge against the white supremacists since they took up their Tiki torches in North Carolina, reminded everyone that the very essence of the alt-right movement is Nazism: They are Nazis even in their embrace of eugenics and abortion.
Neo-Nazis Like Abortion Because It Kills Babies
Writing under the penname “Aylmer Fisher,” the alt-right author of “The Pro-Life Temptation,” published at RadixJournal, detailed the “proper” view of abortion for white supremacists. Fisher began by setting up abortion as a eugenic practice which is about the only thing “keeping our societies from falling into complete idiocracy.”
From there, the author attacks the pro-life movement as “clearly dysgenic,” noting “it is quite easy to avoid an unwanted pregnancy; the only ones who can’t are the least intelligent and responsible members of society: women who are disproportionately Black, Hispanic, and poor.” These are not the babies the alt-right wants saved. Fisher continues: “Not only is the pro-life movement dysgenic, but its justifications rely on principles we generally reject. The alt Right is skeptical, to say the least, of concepts like ‘equality’ and ‘human rights,’ especially as bases for policy.”
At every level, the beliefs and goals of the white supremacist, alt-right, Nazi movement—concisely capsulized in Fisher’s article—directly oppose conservatism. Yet the Left ignores this reality, literally equating conservatives with Nazis. Earlier this week, Markos Moulitsas, founder and publisher of the Daily Kos, tweeted that “NRA and American conservatives/Nazis are one and the same.”
The Nazi charge is nothing new. Nearly 50 years ago, Gore Vidal called William F. Buckley a “crypto-Nazi” on TV, to which Buckley responded with a slur and a threat: “Stop calling me a crypto-Nazi, or I’ll sock you in the goddamn face, and you’ll stay plastered.”
Excuse Me, We Like Limited Government, Not Genocide
Jonah Goldberg reminded readers of the Vidal-Buckley feud more than a decade ago when sharing feedback for his article “Springtime for Slanders,” writing: “Turns out that a lot, and I mean a lot — like a crowd scene from Ben Hur — of conservatives are sick and tired of being called Nazis by know-nothing nasty liberals. ‘Springtime for Slanders’ got a huge, huge response from good-hearted conservatives who take great offense to the notion that favoring a limited government is the same thing as favoring genocide.”
Conservatives don’t like it any better these days. It is a horrible insult—and an undeserved one, especially when you remember what Hitler and the Nazis believed. Here’s Goldberg again:
“Hitler and the Nazis were resolutely pro-gun-control, pro-speech-code and anti-religious. They regulated everything and dumped billions into public-works projects. Further, the intellectual cross-pollination between German eugenicists and the founding mothers of modern feminism is remarkable. Recall that Margaret Sanger, the still-revered founder of Planned Parenthood, was an undiluted eugenicist committed to, in her words, the elimination of ‘weeds . . . overrunning the human garden’ and the segregation of ’morons, misfits, and the maladjusted.’ Her journal, The Birth Control Review, was a convenient transmission belt for racist bile. Lothrop Stoddard, who also was on Sanger’s Board of Directors, wrote in ‘The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy’ that ’we must resolutely oppose both Asiatic permeation of white race-areas and Asiatic inundation of those non-white, but equally non-Asiatic regions inhabited by the really inferior races.’”
Progressives Are Still Into Eugenics, Too
Goldberg’s words still ring true today, as Daniel Payne detailed recently. In fact, in reading Payne’s piece one might wonder if he were quoting Sanger, Hitler, or RadixJournal, given the striking similarity in premise and position.
As Payne also highlights, while the racist eugenics founding of Planned Parenthood may now remain a silent legacy, it is an unending one, with the abortion provider killing on average about 120,000 black babies per year. “If you were a white supremacist who wanted to sharply reduce the black population to make way for more whites, what would you be doing differently than Planned Parenthood?” Payne queries.
So true, and also sadly ironic when juxtaposed against Planned Parenthood’s Charlottesville tweet “against racism and violence in all its forms.”
But it is not just Planned Parenthood and the alt-right adopting the social pathology of the Nazis. Last week saw reports from Iceland and Australia celebrating those countries “successfully” eliminating Down Syndrome. As I pointed out at the time, however, the countries haven’t eradicated Down Syndrome—but babies with Down Syndrome.
You know who else wants to emulate these “successes?” That’s right: the alt-right. Here’s Fisher again in RadixJournal: “A study in Europe found that over 90 percent of mothers who were told that their babies were going to have Down’s syndrome did not continue the pregnancy. In 2011, it was estimated that there are now 30 percent fewer people with the disorder in the United States due to prenatal diagnosis. In the future, as such technologies improve, what the Left calls ‘reproductive freedom’ will continue to be the justification for private-sector eugenics.” 
So by all means, call the alt-right Nazis. But don’t forget Nazis come in all shapes and sizes—and some even wear stethoscopes and pink p-ssy hats.
Margot Cleveland is a lawyer, CPA, and adjunct professor for the University of Notre Dame. Cleveland can be reached via email at mobrien@nd.edu or on Twitter at @ProfMJCleveland.
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