Wagatwe Wanjuki: yup. I wrote about it years ago when very few people were talking about it. it has always been about a racist power grab.

yup. I wrote about it years ago when very few people were talking about it. it has always been about a racist power grab.

And remember, the Christian Right only took up abortion as a topic after they lost school segregation for good when the IRS went after Bob Jones’ U status, & needed a new issue to rally the troops. 1/x all our issues are intertwined. 🧵

The little-known racist origins of the 'pro-life' abortion movement — Wagatwe Wanjukiwagatwe.com How white supremacy and the American “pro-life” political movement are inherently intertwined.

#bvm

The other thing that doesn't get said enough is that it was a Tradcath Latin-Mass takeover. Evangelicals were the grunts in the power grab of Leonard Leo and his rightwing Catholic justices. Abortion was always their issue.

Sara Diamond was all over this thirty years ago: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Di...

Sara Diamond (sociologist) - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

Cool, thanks

I remember when…Perlstein I think it was, was yelling at people on twitter and trying to claim this wasn’t true

Yep. Here's a white dude saying so for folks whose racist family members won't listen unless a white guy says it: www.patheos.com/blogs/slackt... www.patheos.com/blogs/slackt...

White evangelicalism is white nationalism.www.patheos.com White evangelicalism yesterday performed the purpose for which it was designed: It elected a white nationalist as president. This was not the end of white evangelicalism, but the culmination of its pu...

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Popping that up to the top of my “to read” list

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The same right to privacy that made abortion legal is the same right to privacy that made forced sterilization illegal.

Makes sense. I remember when protestants who I guess are now evangelicals kind of mocked Catholics over abortion. Had to have a new fake cause.

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The flipflops of Roe prada.substack.com/p/roe-v-wade

Roe v Wadeprada.substack.com hopefully every single my inner circle, my families, or my beloved, all my (women) friends never ever facing a difficult choice named abortion.

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