(or Sticky Rights)
Through all of the bullshit written about the rift between Susan G. Komen and Planned Parenthood – which culminated in Komen’s capitulation – we need to be direct about what is going on here. Megan McArdle touched on the issue, but I’d like to put a little more stank on it.
Planned Parenthood is screaming and wailing like children because they were given something by Susan G. Komen which was temporarily not going to be given to them any longer. Planned Parenthood was screeching that Komen are Indian Givers, and the dialogue has devolved into something one would expect in such a toddlerific spat.
And actually, I’m being a little gracious towards Planned Parenthood when I characterize this as Indian Giving as it is generally conceived. When kids speak of Indian Giving they usually mean that one kid gave one object to another kid and then took it back. The case can be made that the Indian Giver actually stole property that had become the recipient’s. But in the case of Komen, the breast cancer awareness organization had given grants – a loose guarantee of payment – to Planned Parenthood. To go back to the playground, this is like one child giving another a jelly bean every 10 minutes and then cutting off jelly bean supply out of the clear blue. What we have are two different interpretations of what “Indian Giving” actually means. Komen didn’t temporarily take back something they’d given; they were planning on not giving something that they had established a pattern of giving.
This is how we know that Planned Parenthood is essentially a leftist organization. Leftist in the sense that they have a very distorted attitude towards property and rights. We see this attitude in the way they talk about health care or entitlements as a right. Mother Jones blogger Kevin Drum recently wrote:
The right’s recent jihad against Planned Parenthood is about as loathsome as anything I’ve ever seen come out of them. They simply don’t care anymore how many people they hurt or how much harm they do to anyone they disapprove of.
The Left is very quick to absorb things they feel they’ve gained. They quickly place the “mine” label on the stuff they get – much like the child on the playground.
We have to be very precise with the language. Drum et al want us to believe that someone not funneling their resources towards performing abortions or providing advice to women on where to get mammograms is the same thing as hurting them or causing harm. But there’s a difference between actively murdering someone and passively watching someone die. Even more, there’s a difference between watching someone die and hearing that someone might die but still not do anything to prevent the death. Even further, and more germane to this case, there’s a difference between knowing that person A might die but also having a chance to save person B.
To me, the only thing that Komen could have done that would be worthy of the shock and vitriol that they are receiving from the anti-birth cohort is if it were discovered that they’d grossly misappropriated funds or if they were using charity as a front for personal gain. Barring that, they are an independent organization that formulates its own strategy to accomplish its stated mission. Planned Parenthood should merely say “thank you” if it receives funding and say nothing if that funding is discontinued.
This type of thinking is present in the leftist diatribes against any curtailment of anything that the left values. In Wisconsin, overturning the power of public unions to collectively bargain – which essentially allowed them to leverage to negotiate for taxpayer dollars – was met with a temper tantrum. The tantrum throwers pretended as if they were born with a natural right to collectively bargain in public unions. And we’ll certainly see the same thing if and when the day comes that Social Security or Medicare are cut. All of these things are innovations of the past 60 to 80 years, yet they’ve already entered the litany of rights to which we are entitled.
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If I understand you correctly, you are being too kind in attributing altruism of some sort to Mr. Drum’s statement. He isn’t referring to women who potentially want an abortion. The people who are “hurt” or “harmed” by any reduction in funding are those collecting a paycheck at PP.
I figured it would come to this after some time. They’re running out of places to loot, now the cannibals are turning on one another. Like a zombie movie where they run out of fresh meat.
One can see this in other places too. Gays battling feminists battling blacks over who is the biggest victim and who gets the biggest slice of the AA pie.
I figured it would come to this after some time. They’re running out of places to loot, now the cannibals are turning on one another.
Indeed. As the demands increase exponentially and the “wealthy” and “powerful” male is milked dry, they will only be able to turn on one another to satisfy their funding fix.
The Left can’t understand that it has been created via a symbiotic relationship with America, hence gifts become rights as the parasitic relationship evolves.
Planned Parenthood would be more efficient farming this service out. Why should PP buy it’s own machines when there are machines in hospitals and clinics with time available? Lest they think their pathological ideology might be undermined during time in such other places. The same with ultrasound technicians (who could as easily be employed elsewhere). They foster growth of their ideology parasitically, “We need, we have a right, you have to …”.
Anyways … as fast as Komen caved, and the amount of news coverage this thing received from the start, makes me wonder if this was just part of some co-engineered fund-raising plan.
Ryu, I am not sure this is it, but you are right, when the backs of the White man get too worn, the fights for the free White dollars will begin — and that’s when true feelings will come out.
I responded at the Atlantic Monthly reports of this, received 500 replies, and my response was deleted. My comment, “mammograms are a hoax.”
The US Preventative Services Task Force analyzes the benefit/harm ratio resulting from mammograms, and it is dismal. To understand: Mammograms are a screening test, not a diagnostic test. When interpreted for high sensitivity, they will necessarily be nonspecific, leading to huge rates of false positives in most age groups. The downside of mammograms include false alarms, unnecessary repeat mammograms, ultrasounds, biopsies. Screening also generates extra cases of slow-growing putsy cancers that are then unnecessarily treated, while the woman would otherwise die of her heart disease or stroke. 40% of all women screened will receive a false positive result. .
The defenses of this nonspecific screening test is all anecdotal “but my mother had breast cancer and is now alive because of screening.” The subgroup of people impassioned on this topic simply cannot understand what a poor test it is, and the harm it causes.
“gifts become rights”……….rjp, I love that.
The experiment has been conducted before, of course. It is interesting to see how it play out on a larger scale.
We always harp on South Africa, but it’s true. Whites can never buy off the blacks – there’s not enough money in the world. Of course, this particular case is about the breast cancer feminists fighting the abortion women’s right feminists. We lump the blacks, illegals and feminists together into an ideologically similar group called multiculturalists or libs. Keeps things simple and on target.
It’s literally life or death. This thing doesn’t end until one of the two parties is gone – real whites or the huge category of “liberals”. Even in Zimbabwe, with only 20K whites left, they still get the blame!
They’ve had some success in Ocania, an all white city in South Africa. However, I have heard some troubling things about their mental state. Apparently some of the Boer in SA still don’t get it. They believe there is a middle ground to be had. That’s why it’s so critical to know where a white person stands.
Leftists have a lot in common with domesticated animals. They are totally dependent upon their handlers for their daily sustenance. You can take a 350 lb bull mastiff and turn him into a lap dog if he is mastered properly. Same goes for a 350 lb Negro. Both could not survive for a week without their mess of pottage.
Ho hum, we all knew that SGK was going to cave.
Look, any charity that is not explicitly conservative in time gets taken over by the kook fringe left — I think Larry Auster first made that observation. Consider the example of MADD: originally dedicated to the laudable goal of reducing deaths due to DUI, it has morphed into a left wing pressure group whose main goal now is neo-prohibitionism. Everything that is old is new again; 100 years ago Carrie Nation and the WCTU and other progressive crackpots pushed prohibition, and they’re back again.
But I digress. PP and SGK both get government money, I am sure. I think there’s an excellent chance that PP ran to Obama’s HHS secretary, wetting their pants and crying about how mean the SGK people were being. She in turn had some flunky call SGK and say “that’s a nice little charity you’se gots there. Ya wouldn’t want nothing to happen to it now, would youse?”
This is the sort of thing that makes me long for a big and drawn out civilizational collapse. “You’re evil because you stopped giving money to us!” is such a perverse argument. Our society is just so broken, and the only thing that will fix it is destroying the mechanisms that feed the parasites.
“It’s literally life or death. This thing doesn’t end until one of the two parties is gone – real whites or the huge category of “liberals”. Even in Zimbabwe, with only 20K whites left, they still get the blame! ”
Interesting. White nationalists traits can manifest themselves in non- White Nationalists and even non-Whites. How long do you think it will be until they start blaming the Jews?
Personally, I am waiting for the day when the home mortgage interest deduction is ended. I wonder if Chuck will be calling that reaction a temper tantrum.
Robert,
Where did you get the impression that I support the home mortgage interest deduction?
I’m still unsure why Komen needs to pay Planned deParenthood to mention — during a consultation with a woman — that, “Ohbytheway, have you been screened for breast cancer? It’s real simple…” They REALLY need extra outside funding for the 15-60 seconds it adds to the conversation?? That smacks of blackmail to me: that PP would not care if breast cancer went undetected in all its clients, were they not receiving money for doing something that costs nothing.
Cunts.
You need to read some Thomas frank or Barbara ehrenreich
anti:
I’ve read Thomas Frank and I live in close contact w/ the people that Ehrenreich wrote about.
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