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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-10 12:40 PM
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10. During the Reagan years, minority women were offered sterilization
when they applied for welfare. But, otoh, I don't know to a certainty that they were encouraged more than poor white women. It would be something to look into, anyway.
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  -After watching the baggers, it's so clear that their abortion cr@p is just racism. EFerrari  Mar-21-10 12:28 PM   #0 
  - Yeah, that's right..  left coaster   Mar-21-10 12:31 PM   #1 
  - It's not that. It's that Obama being around brought the underlying  EFerrari   Mar-21-10 12:32 PM   #2 
  - Respectfully disagree. Right-wingers have always been sexist AS WELL as racist. rop  LiberalLoner   Mar-21-10 12:33 PM   #3 
  - Oh, I agree. But their glue is racism. That's what keeps them together  EFerrari   Mar-21-10 12:37 PM   #5 
     - I think racism is their glue at the moment and one of the strongest forces keeping them together but  LiberalLoner   Mar-21-10 12:44 PM   #12 
        - Yes, I saw that object. And I agree that the target of opportunity  EFerrari   Mar-21-10 12:48 PM   #14 
           - Oh, okay, I see what you are saying. Yup, I think the racism is probably the strongest strand  LiberalLoner   Mar-21-10 12:52 PM   #17 
              - My grandfather was also an officer in a military  EFerrari   Mar-21-10 12:56 PM   #19 
                 - Thank you. He is the lone liberal among the fascists. :(  LiberalLoner   Mar-21-10 01:09 PM   #21 
                    - It takes a lot of strength to do that. How many years, LiberalLoner?  EFerrari   Mar-21-10 01:11 PM   #22 
                       - 18, but by accepting the promotion he incurs a few more years of service.  LiberalLoner   Mar-21-10 01:18 PM   #23 
                          - If it's any comfort, most coups these days are done economically  EFerrari   Mar-21-10 01:21 PM   #24 
                             - Thank you. Yeah, I worry the economic coup is underway. :(  LiberalLoner   Mar-21-10 01:30 PM   #25 
                                - During the Gulf War, I think my mom and I were the only people in the whole Santa Clara Valley  EFerrari   Mar-21-10 01:37 PM   #26 
                                   - That's true! Actually I was in theater but not part of the war effort - was in the MFO peacekeeper  LiberalLoner   Mar-21-10 01:48 PM   #27 
  - Not sure I follow you on this...  gmoney   Mar-21-10 12:35 PM   #4 
  - True  treestar   Mar-21-10 12:37 PM   #6 
  - During the Reagan years, minority women were offered sterilization  EFerrari   Mar-21-10 12:40 PM   #10 
  - True. In Nazi Germany, Abortions were mandatory for Jews, Illegal for Aryans  Taverner   Mar-21-10 12:38 PM   #8 
  - It's not entirely rational, as far as I can tell. They don't want black women  EFerrari   Mar-21-10 12:38 PM   #9 
  - Yep.  Joanne98   Mar-21-10 12:38 PM   #7 
  - I'm just putting this together so I'm sorry if I'm not being very clear. n/t  EFerrari   Mar-21-10 12:41 PM   #11 
     - No, no, don't apologize, you are just kind of thinking out loud here which is good...rop  LiberalLoner   Mar-21-10 12:46 PM   #13 
  - I can tell you that among the senior leadership (0-6 and above) of the military, there are  LiberalLoner   Mar-21-10 12:49 PM   #15 
  - Wow. We're so far down the rabbit hole. n/t  EFerrari   Mar-21-10 12:51 PM   #16 
  - By removing the social safety net, they intend to encourage poor/minorities NOT to  Gman2   Mar-21-10 12:53 PM   #18 
     - If the teabaggers were a mixed group of the religious, it would make  EFerrari   Mar-21-10 12:59 PM   #20 
 

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