Last one I talked to said, “What videos?”
The ones I know are claiming it’s edited and “taken out of context.”
That Kool-Aid must be soooooo good.
“Fake”
“Heavily edited”
“It’s just tissue, what’s the big deal?”
“Smear campaign”
I posted a comment on my Facebook page about this, and how people are enraged about a dead lion, but seem to be desensitized to the butchering of babies and the harvesting of their parts for profit. I said this wasn’t a “left vs right issue, but an issue of humanity”. I had a friend tell me that she didn’t even know about this, researched it herself after she read my post, and thanked me. She then shared it on her page.
The media can run from this, but there is no hiding the atrocities in social media. Most people are not OK with this, once they actually find out what “this” is. Even my libby-lib boss “liked” my post.
The Libertarians are UP SET.
The few who do try to stand up for PP are quickly eaten alive by the others. They’re well informed and angry.
One Libertarian on a FB group that I’m part of said that he was strongly pro-choice until this happened. He said that he’d always thought that Pro-lifers were crazy radicals, but now he felt the urge to toss a Molotov cocktail through the window of an abortion clinic.
And he’s not the only one. More and more are saying that these videos have changed their position and perception more than anything ever had. One woman asked “Is *this* what it means to be pro-life? If so - I’m out.”
The few pro-PP who say that they stand with a woman’s right to choose and support PP are quickly reminded that THE foundation of libertarianism is personal responsibility.
They’re as riled as any evangelical church right now.
Believe it or not, many are actually calling for the removal of the rape option.