Today’s GOP insanity

[robkelk]

I mean, where the fuck is the line drawn? Or do we, y'know, just lock pregnant women in a oubliette for 9 months or something?

That's what some of them want. That, and a nice collection of babies to adopt with no memory of where they came from. Seriously, a lot of 'Christian' groups have been taught for over a century that they are doing Gods work by taking the children of minorities away and raising them 'proper'. At the same time though, it's not really done for the children. Their fate after birth doesn't actually MATTER to the people that follow this dogma. It's a large part of why they will move heaven and earth to force a birth, but refuse to offer any support afterwards. Nazi Germany was fond of blond jewish girls they'd rename Eva. Here in Australia, we had the Stolen Generation, which was decades of indigenous children being taken by force from their parents, legally, and then transferring them into an orphanage system with a nightmarish death rate of children under five. To this day, there are people that will argue, with a smile on their face, that those people were doing the will of God and the Australian Government made a terrible mistake in admitting it was wrong. I suspect you can think of a variant in Ireland Dartz.

I can think of two in Canada. First, the residential schools. They were run by both the federal government and various Christian churches, and their purpose was to "beat the Indian out of the child" - yes, that's a direct quote, although it was only ever used behind closed doors. Second, the "Sixties Scoop" of taking indigenous children away from their families and sending them for adoption to be raised in white families.

The government has apologized for its part in this (let's not mince words) genocide, and has begun to make amends. The churches... a few have apologized, many have not, and amends have not yet begun to appear.

The only difference I see between the policies of Canada and Australia then and what's happening to women in the "Bible Belt" of the USA now is that the latter is being done retail, not wholesale.

That's what's so terrifying about this. It is a system of belief that has infected countless European descended cultures for centuries. Blatant cruelty, with the people behind it so blinded by their fanaticism they can't see it. Once upon a time, before widespread birth control and sex education, it was often simply a matter of controlling the facilities for unwed pregnant people, refuse to offer any support if they wanted to keep the child, then use the orphanages to cherry pick the 'pretty children'.  Most of the modern cruelty from places like Alabama comes from people trying to restore those old systems in some way, because they were raised to believe such things are Right and Proper.

Likewise in Canada. For example, the party in power in Alberta right now sees no reason to consult with the native people who live on the land that the government wants to build a pipeline across, for example. It's a case of thinking it's Right and Proper to take what they want from the non-whites. It sure looks from here that they don't think non-whites are people.