Is Ruthie Ginsberg the next Hitler?

One of the things that the wing nuts are foaming off at the mouth about this week, is a statement from Ruthie Ginsberg that she thought Roe vs Wade would lead to government subsidies of abortion and in essence lead to genocidal population control among disadvantaged minorities. They are all hot to paint this frail old Jewess as a bloodthirsty, racist proponent of eugenics.

Roe v. Wade was adjudicated almost four decades ago. Ruthie was a young woman and not remotely involved. She was simply making an observation of how the situation seemed to her at the time, as an academic observer, given the people involved in the process. This was during the administration of Richard Nixon. The Congress was, I believe controlled by the Democrats but both parties were represented by older, affluent, white, protestant men. The Supreme Court was dominated and led by Republican appointees and very conservative Dixiecrats.

I don't personally believe this but a lot of people thought at the time, that given the reactionary, male dominated philosophy of government, genocide of minority groups, especially troublesome urban blacks, was exactly what was planned.

It really hasn't turned out that way. It's the white demographic that is shrinking. Blacks are holding their own and we are all being deluged by wave after wave of contemporary immigrants, mostly Hispanics, from Catholic countries where population growth is unfettered by any sort of family planning or birth control and the Catholic Church actively cheer leads poor populations that double every 12 years, in the absence of the safety valve of Northern migration. Different people have different ideas about how we should deal with Hispanic immigration. Nobody disagrees over why it's happening. The countries where they come from no longer have the resources to support them and in fact, depend on the meager individual remittances sent home to those that remain to buoy up sinking economies.

Poor Ruthie is no genocidal, racist eugenicist. Just a poor old Jew with incipient senile dementia and a tumorous pancreas. Give an old girl a break. She is Scalia's closest companion on the court, ease up on her for that reason, hysterical, dimwitted wing nuts, if for no other.