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The talking point: A pregnant woman aborted a pregnancy because the fetus had Down's Syndrome. This is bad.

The left-wing-language version of this talking point: This is ableist. She shouldn't have done that, because it was a decision that came out of ableism. Boo, hiss, shame on her.

The whisper part of this: she shouldn't have been allowed to do this. Someone should have stopped her from making an ableist decision.

The right-wing taking point at play is: abortion is bad.

The right-wing folks want you, the left-wing person, to agree that there are cases where abortion is bad. That there are cases where a pregnant person must be required to carry a pregnancy to term against that person's will.

Therefore, it must undermine the belief that a pregnant person must always have the right to choose. It chips at it and says: here's a reason that's A BAD REASON for abortion. After all, you agree that ableism is bad! This woman had an ableist reason for her abortion!

Ergo, this woman must have been forced, against her will, to carry this pregnancy to term.

The right-wing talking point that you are agreeing with: A pregnant person's right to choose is subject to veto by other people who will decide if that reason is good enough.

In the right-wing world, NO REASON IS EVER GOOD ENOUGH.

And they get you to agree with them on this part. They whisper, "but her reason wasn't good enough!"

By agreeing with them, you are not helping abortion rights, and you are NOT HELPING PEOPLE WITH DOWN'S.

There's a lot of concern trolling going on, as if forcing a woman to give birth to a child she doesn't want, and raise a child she doesn't want, is somehow the morally correct thing to do. It's not the morally correct thing to do. I don't care if you don't agree with her decision to have an abortion, IT IS STILL HER CHOICE.

Being forced to bear and raise a child you don't want is not good for the child. It's not good for the parent, either, and it's not good for society. Children are not punishments on the parents for having sex -- that is a major core belief -- all children should be wanted. "But not if the kids are disabled! Disabled kids can be imposed on parents against their will. Because that's morally correct and hurts no one!" This is what you're agreeing with.

I don't care if you don't like this person's reason for having an abortion, it was still that person's decision. Her decision is not subject to your veto.

And if you want people in this position to make the other CHOICE and choose to keep the pregnancy, then you can help by working to help make things better for people with Down's who already exist, not some hypothetical one you can use as a cudgel against abortion rights.

Because the anti-abortion folks don't actually give a shit about people with Down's either. But a fetus with Down's is a weapon they are happy to use to get people to change their mind on if abortion rights are sacrosanct or if they should be subject to a judge's approval. And enough people don't have access to abortion right now, and are dying because of it, that it is physically paining me to see people I like and respect pretending that this is being done in good faith and with the slightest bit of respect for the humanity, dignity, and inherent values of people of all ages with Down's. They are people, not metaphors. You are not helping them by doing this.

Also they're ratfuckers but that's a different point.

-Mike Huckabee Creates International Crisis By Sticking Godly Foot In Pious Mouth by Gary Legum, published by Wonkette

I take the Days Since Someone Has Tried To Critique Christians And Decided To Talk Shit About Jews Along The Way counter and I reset it to zero.

"Primitive", take a sip of your beverage of choice. Also, it's not very liberal or cool to use that word in general.

"Illiterate", it's actually interesting the way that people these days consider literacy to be the basic standard, and if you're illiterate, you're stupid. This situation, it should be pretty damn obvious if you think about it, does not hold true in all places, in all situations, in all time periods. Literacy was once something for clerks. It was something for people who needed it for their job. Just because a society or people are illiterate does not make them mentally backward. File under: also this shit is why you don't say primitive anymore.

"Shepherds", I see we're being classist here today, too.

Back on "illiterate", I hate to say it, because no we don't actually know how literate the Jews were at that time, but very famously, something was written down. Engraved, you might even say. On some tablets. Which indicates that people were expected to be able to read them.

Jews also have really prioritized and prized literacy through the ages.

You cannot claim this is about Christianity. Jesus was notably a carpenter.

Skill level (of fabric)

Designer name (of fabric)

Country of origin (sure)

Special properties (bit of a catch-all)

Rub count (...okay?)

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Every so often I fantasize about the frum high school I would create if I ever had unlimited money and resources...

It's not more complicated than that.

You have a goal. You come up with ideas of how to achieve it. If those don't work, you try other actions. But always your eye is on the goal: I want X, so I need to do Y to achieve X.

If doing Y achieves Z instead, then either your goal was Z all along, or you need to change your actions.

But if you keep seeing that your actions are achieving a goal you're not trying for, and you don't change your actions, then only one of two things can be possible.

One: you're pretty bad at this, and should take up a different activity before you do a lot of unintended damage.

Two: your goal was Z all along, and you were either lying to me or to yourself. It's fine if you lie to me -- but lying to yourself is a much bigger problem, for you, in the long run. Self-delusion isn't praxis.

Hey, sometimes people from a group [neurotypical, cis, etc] are acting like a jerk to you.

There is nothing in their brain chemistry or gender identity that makes them be jerks to you.