wtf is this?

[kpete]

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=196301970388474&id=101398963258269

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Propaganda employing the logical fallacies of appealing to the emotions and

begging the question.

[Lucky 13]

2. Misogyny and racism

[Kurovski]

7. ...Disguised as "concern"

Concern trolls are branching out.

[RZM]

11. I think this is the very defintiion of 'pulling the race card'

at least in a pejorative sense. Race can and should be brought up in certain situations, but I think when one injects race into a discussion where it doesn't necessarily belong, they are open to accusations of improper 'race carding' and this is a good example of that. It's a rather feeble attempt to imply that pro-choice white people are partly motivated by a desire to limit the African American births and part of a broader effort appeal to anti-abortion sentiment within the African-American community. It's not the first time pro-life groups have used race-based appeals, though from what I can tell this type of thing is becoming more common, which might be a sign of desperation.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Babies are born fully dressed with a ribbon in their hair?

[rfranklin]

12. Naw, that's a freeloading welfare recipient...not an innocent unborn fetus...

There's obviously been some mistake in the choice of illustrations.

[Art_from_Ark]

29. Well, Athena supposedly was

but I haven't heard of any others that managed such a feat.

[slackmaster]

4. It looks like an extra-large propaganda poster advertising an anti-abortion Web site

:shrug:

[liberal N proud]

5. It is a sick sign

Really sick

[Zoeisright]

6. Hardly. The most dangerous place for an African-American baby is near

a repuke.

[Carni]

8. Geez just a TAD racist!

Is that actually a sign displayed somewhere? WTF INDEED!

[GKirk]

9. Out of complete ignorance...

...I must ask, why is it racist?

[Lucky 13]

14. I have to ask, how is this NOT racist.

It's their pathetically thinly veiled way of saying, "Black women have abortion after abortion and are therefore dangerous, immoral, etc etc etc."

How can this possibly be construed as NOT racist? I don't get it.

[RZM]

27. Actually I totally disagree with that interpretation

I think post #20 nailed it. This is actually supposed to be an appeal directly to the African American community. What they're essentially saying is 'racist white liberals want you to abort your unborn children because they want less of you around . . . we, on the other hand, love unborn babies of every color.'

Every once in a while the right uses race-based arguments/insinuations to try to appeal to African-Americans, usually with little success. Being an Ohioan, I remember during one of Ken Blackwell's campaigns he ran an ad on hip-hop/R&B stations that depicted a conversation between two African-American women. I'm trying to reconstruct this from memory, but I seem to recall that one woman old the other: 'I'm voting for Ken Blackwell and you should too, because you know how they do . . .'

[GKirk]

28. Thank you...

...that was my first reaction.

[Carni]

17. How is it not? eom

[tekisui]

26. Wow, that really is complete ignorance.

[Myrina]

10. Catch-22

African Americans are demonized for having too many kids and being 'welfare queens' and 'deadbeat dads', but alternatively, taking control over their reproductive selves is being demonized too, in a religious way. The Right has to have a scapegoat, one way or the other.

[arcane1]

15. You beat me to it!

:toast:

[Sal Minella]

19. And just to make sure the poor can continue being scapegoats,

Gov. Branstead in Iowa plans to reduce the family planning assistance available to low-income women.

Prevent the poor from getting contraceptives, and then you can tut-tut at them if they have a baby out of wedlock, or scowl at them if they have an abortion.

Win-Win!!!

[OwnedByFerrets]

13. So hypocritical when they don't give a DAMN about this child

or any child of that age who isn't their own. It's only an issue when it can be used as an issue.

[veganlush]

16. about 60% of aborted fetuses are white...n/t

[Fire1]

22. BINGO!! We have a winna!! n/t

[butterfly77]

18. Isn't it something that..

the people who claim to care so much for AA life do their damndest to make their lives an everlasting hell once they get here. Hypocrites!!!:mad: :grr:

[Ozymanithrax]

20. The right preaches that abortion is a racist liberal attempt to wipe out African Americans...

by making abortion legal because they say it is a leftist eugenics plot to create liberal racial purity.

[SheilaT]

21. The other idiotic argument the forced-childbearing proponents

make is along the lines of: Aren't you glad your mother didn't have an abortion?

Too bad Hitler's mother didn't have one. Or Khaddafi's mom. Or . . . well, you get the idea.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

23. ...

[ohheckyeah]

24. There's a new commercial

being played in VA for some group (can't remember the name) with women talking about all the problems an abortion caused them, from infertility to suicide attempts.

[Sal Minella]

25. Right. Whereas having a child you can't care for adequately

causes a woman no problem at all.

I am endlessly amazed at rightwingers' lack of ability to think anything through.