Is This Communist 'Cult' Trying to Hijack the Abortion Movement?

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/abortion-activists-take-on-communist-cult-at-protests?ref=author

...RiseUp tactics like putting red paint on protesters’ pants to evoke coat-hanger abortions and wrapping women in faux-barb wire with American-flag colors have become among the most eye-catching in the latest round of pro-abortion rights activism. The group’s members are ever-present at rallies responding to the ruling—when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) gave a speech outside the court, RiseUp leader Sunsara Taylor held a megaphone for the lawmaker.

But now other pro-abortion rights groups say that RiseUp isn’t what it seems. Instead, they say it’s a front for the Revolutionary Communist Party, a fringe far-left group dating back to the 1960s with a reputation for latching onto social movements for its own benefit.

In late June, 23 abortion funds and other pro-abortion rights groups issued a statement calling Rise Up a “cult” and accusing it of duping well-meaning abortion supporters into a “pyramid scheme” supporting the Revolutionary Communists. In the document, the groups said it was time for pro-abortion rights organizations to “unite in discrediting RiseUp publicly” and push it out of protest “spaces.”

[DBoon]

1. oh god, not the RCP again

I remember them from my college days. They were nuts then and are still nuts now.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

3. You didn't, perchance, go to Berkeley did you?

I remember these nuts very well myself. I recall when they finally broke with the PRC and declared themselves to be "in solidarity" with Socialist Albania. LOL.

They were always fucking up demonstrations with their nuttery.

They would regroup under different names (wearing different t-shirts) but it was easy to see the same old faces of the Revolutionary Communist "Youth Brigade."

They we also the core of Berkeley's (actually based in Richmond) local Antifa organization.

For those who didn't read the linked article, they are indeed anti-LGBTQ (believing that Communism will purify these expressions of Capitalist decadence.

They are trouble and have always been trouble.

[DURHAM D]

2. Hmmmh - "pro abortion" instead of pro-choice?

Has anyone seen Linda Sarsour lately?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. The broader movement has been moving away from "pro-choice" rhetoric in favor of "pro-abortion."

[DURHAM D]

6. Stupid (not you) them. nt

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. It's not tho. It makes a lot of sense.

Avoiding the term "abortion" adds to the stigma. "Pro-choice" means nothing when access is as poor as it is, even before Roe. I routinely describe myself as pro-abortion. I am definitely in favor of procedures that help people live the lives they want to live, and abortion is one of them.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. They're a mess. Avoid them.

[underpants]

8. I just went into a Wikipedia wormhole on this.

Bookmarked for later reading.