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Originally Posted by Danzig
"Authorities tell us that 75 % of the school-children are defective. This means that no less than fifteen million schoolchildren, out of 22,000,000 in the United States, are physically or mentally below par."
i found the above---not all children, but she certainly had a dim view of 3/4ths of them!
glad this came up, i found out a good bit this am in my diggings about sanger--didn't know much of this beforehand. she sounds pretty wacky.
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Oh my Gods and Goddesses, could you be taking that phrase any more out of context? (B would be very angry with you right now for that). What say you read the entire piece from which you took that quote and get back to me:
http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~rauch/ab...sanger_03.html
In case you don't feel like actually reading the woman in her own words- I'll fill you in. "Physically and mentally below par" is referring to the fact that these kids were malnourished and under-educated because they had to leave school at a young age and go work in mills and things that kids had to do before liberals pushed for child-labor laws, NOT that they were mentally retarded. Sanger's point was that if women could control their reproduction, they would have fewer children BY CHOICE, which would then make available a larger share of limited resources on each individual child. Have you ever ben on birth control, Danzig? You can thank Sanger going to jail several times over it- birth control was illegal for MARRIED COUPLES until the 1960's. She was a trailblazer in believing women should be allowed to choose when to have kids- and in recognizing lower birth rates also means lower rates of poverty. Which is why she set up centers in poor neighborhoods. Not because she was racist.
Here's more from that same piece I linked to. Boy, she sure hated kids, doesn't she?
"It is a truism that children are the chief asset of a nation. Yet while the United States government allotted 92.8 per cent. of its appropriations for 1920 toward war expenses, three per cent. to public works, 3.2 per cent. to ``primary governmental functions,'' no more than one per cent. is appropriated to education, research and development. Of this one per cent., only a small proportion is devoted to public health. The conservation of childhood is a minor consideration. While three cents is spent for the more or less doubtful protection of women and children, fifty cents is given to the Bureau of Animal Industry, for the protection of domestic animals. In 1919, the State of Kansas appropriated $25,000 to protect the health of pigs, and $4,000 to protect the health of children. In four years our Federal Government appropriated--roughly speaking--$81,000,000 for the improvement of rivers; $13,000,000 for forest conservation; $8,000,000 for the experimental plant industry; $7,000,000 for the experimental animal industry; $4,000,000 to combat the foot and mouth disease; and less than half a million for the protection of child life."
Excuse me while I go rest my head on my desk for a while. Oy vey.