You may have heard that Wichita-based anti-abortion group Operation Rescue is in the middle of a national campaign to de-fund Planned Parenthood. Yes, it was all going just fine until actress Scarlett Johansson did a PSA, asking people to support their local Planned Parenthood so women could get checked for cervical cancer, and maybe get some condoms now and then.
Operation Rescue wasn't going to just get stomped by the star of Lost in Translation. So they gathered their most creative members for an all-night brainstorming session -- Chinese take-out was ordered, that's how serious it got -- and finally arrived at the most ingenious political satire they could muster.
They slapped a KKK robe on her.
That's the joke. Ha! Racism.
In the interest of journalistic integrity, I should probably come clean that I have a harmless crush on Scarlett Johansson. Sometimes I wonder what she's thinking about. If she's reading this. How we'd meet in some smokey jazz club, and talk about Swordfishtrombone. We'd go back to her loft, she'd pour some scotch, maybe put on a Tom Jones record ...
Sorry about that. I digress.
As political satire, this is thin gruel. If you listen to what Johansson is saying, she has good reasons for supporting Planned Parenthood beyond the abortion issue. She's also talking about having access to proper health care and contraception, which coincidentally prevents the need for an abortion. No one at Operation Rescue bothers to refute this argument. They just stick her in the robe. The video doesn't even stand by its own bad gag. As soon as it's over, this woman pops on: "Just kidding! We don't think Scarlett's really in the Klan! So now you can't criticize us for treating her like a paper doll in 1953 Selma, Alabama, because we never meant it!" The only thing missing from this shot, is that the woman should've done this scene with an untouched layer cake in front of her, whilst crumbs of Red Velvet fall from her lips.
I can't get mad at them for ignoring ScarJo's words and then do the same thing to Operation Rescue. So what of the claim that Planned Parenthood was founded by a racist with ideas about eugenics? Margaret Sanger did once, in 1926, give a speech to women in the KKK about birth control, which she later described as a bizarre experience not unlike talking to slow children. She also wrote a paper on how eugenics could solve racial, political and social problems. Then again, she did a lot of work getting proper health care and, yes, access to safe abortion to the African-American community, and that earned her the respect of civil rights leaders. Here's a snip from Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s remarks on accepting the Planned Parenthood Federation of America Margaret Sanger Award in 1966: "Our sure beginning in the struggle for equality by nonviolent direct
action may not have been so resolute without the tradition established
by Margaret Sanger and people like her."
If I ignored everything else but the fact she once tried to teach some nutty white women about birth control 80-odd years ago (honestly, isn't it a good thing she didn't want them reproducing?) and her conservative views on immigration, maybe I could claim that Planned Parenthood was running a secret racial cleansing campaign. But connecting it all seems intellectually shoddy.
For instance, here's a quote from someone Time magazine once named Man of the Year: "Nazi ideals demand that the practice of abortion ... shall be exterminated with a strong hand. Women inflamed by Marxist propaganda claim the right to bear children only when they desire. First furs, radio, new furniture, then perhaps one child. ...The use of contraceptives (by Aryan women) means a violation of nature, a degradation of womanhood, motherhood, and love." I could use that Hitler quote to stick anti-abortion activists in S.S. uniforms and march them around YouTube, but they probably wouldn't appreciate it, and they'd be right.
Johansson deserves a better rebuttal, and Operation Rescue supporters deserve better jokes.
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Operation Rescue is currently raising funds, via a national mailer, in order to prosecute Planned Parenthood. Naturally OR has nothing to do with the case. On the other hand, Planned Parenthood of KS/MO needs $700k for the legal costs to challenge the charges brought up by Phill Kline and maintained by Brownback. If you hate Operation Rescue, send in your donation to Planned Parenthood of KS/MO.
Keep convincing minorities that their offspring are not humans.
Keep championing the wholesale slaughter of minority "blood clots".
Lower income women need to know that the growth inside them is not human, it is less than they are and they are nothing.....
I love watching people destroy the next generation of black children while screaming about freedom.
You should be proud that you support the elimination of 68% of black children.
The best part is you have figured out how to do it "before they are human".........
wink wink ;> ;>
Being a racist... I support abortion.
The fact that in some areas %68 of black pregnancies end in abortion, really appeals to me.
I love the fact that the Democrats were the pro slavery side of the civil war and the KKK was their terrorist wing.
Now, they keep the darkies in line with "entitlements" that are barely enough to keep them alive and not enough to allow them to get out.
They keep them in prison instead of chains and keep them in slave quarters only now they call them projects.
The murder of their offspring while still inside the womb and making the black people think that they are fighting for freedom is the best trick they have pulled off yet!!
Blacks still live in slave quarters, they still eat a lower quality food, they still live in chains(out of sight in prisons of course) they still get less education, and they kill their own offspring to keep their rich masters happy!
Thyrone, Shayverpoose: how is it that you are smart enough to type, yet stupid enough to type what you typed?
yes and who was in Africa rounding up the slaves to load on the ships. Exactly, other Africans. Just like today in North Korea, China, Phillipines. See not only white people are guilty of slavery. Look past skin color, it doesn't change that we are all human.
S.J. is stolen biological material, taken against will and formed to clones line 200 pieces total. Sign of dangerous criminal activity. Original Scarlett Galabekian future pediatrician doctor, pediatrician nurse license she obtained in 2008
This is no surprise, since the anti-choice zealots routinely resort to lies and misrepresentations in their effort to turn America into a theocratic state. If they didn't lie, they'd never get anyone on their side.
Did you know some of the Founding Fathers owned slaves? Therefore, if you support America, you are racist and bigoted. Great logic.
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