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Alabama, Women’s Rights
”If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best-colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th U.S. President
May 15, 2019 (Analysis) We all woke up to the news. The Alabama Senate passed the most restrictive abortion bill in recent memory. It effectively bans a medical procedure and can land a medical provider in prison for upwards of ninety-nine years. Many people outside the Deep South, or the culture outside of the South that embraces this, see this as overreach. To be fair, so do some White Supremacists posting at sites that most people stay away from.
This is not a surprise. For they see Dominionist and the religious right as enemies of the White Race. However, they are a minority. Most on those sites are also celebrating, and the reason is simple. It prevents the abortion of white babies.
Those who do not understand the culture are posting memes, claiming this was an overreach. They are joined by a strange bedfellow, Pat Roberts, who does understand the politics better than most, The reaction from liberal twitter has gone so far as to state that this act will surely lose them the legislature. This reveals them as the misogynist they are. It was all men who passed this. Women will surely…