Posted on 10/03/2017 5:38:52 PM PDT by markomalley
In a speech Sunday at the March for Racial Justice rally on the National Mall, feminist Gloria Steinem said “gender was invented” to control women and reproduction and that “race was invented … to justify colonialism and slavery.”
“So all the women in the world are in some degree of trouble, because it’s all about controlling reproduction. It’s the why of it. Did you ever wonder why? Yeah I mean, the first step in every hierarchy is patriarchy in order to control reproductive,” Steinem said.
“So, and racism, caste in India, class. It all makes it much worse, because to maintain those divisions, you have to control women even more. So these things have always been intertwined. It is just not possible to disentangle these deep caste systems. It is absolutely impossible. They can only be uprooted together,” she said.
“So let’s just remember folks, okay that gender was invented in order to control reproduction, and we’re now disinventing it, right? That race was invented in fact in order to justify colonialism and slavery, and we have not done a good job in this country of uprooting the racism that justified slavery. We got rid of slavery, but not this,” Steinem added.
She also said that we “should learn from Germany and the Holocaust lessons that every child in German schools learns.”
Steinem also held native Americans up as an example, saying that they didn’t have the words “he” and “she” in their language.
“Was the people who lived here for you know 99 percent, the native Americans, the indian country still didn’t have he and she in their language. The idea of society was a circle, not a hierarchy, not a pyramid. It’s relatively recent that all this has happened, and I find it helpful - I don’t know about you - to understand that it wasn’t always that way,” she said.
Steinem also said that black women are dying disproportionately because of the Hyde Amendment, which bans the use of federal funds to pay for abortion, and placed the blame on President Donald Trump for “punishing” women in Africa.
She talked about the bracelets she was wearing - one for Rosie Jimenez, who died in 1977 because of complications from an illegal abortion - and another for lack of funding for abortions overseas.
“They’re like POW bracelets, right? And one is for Rosie Jimenez who was the first woman to die because of the Hyde Amendment, because of no funded abortions at 1977. She was 27 years old, and this one is the lack of funding for Medicaid for abortions in other countries,” Steinem said, as she explained showing the bracelets to a man on the train while visiting the nation’s capital.
“So I showed these to him, and I said, who is dying are not white women. Yes, some white women are dying, but disproportionately, Rosie Jimenez was not a white woman, and it’s the women in the countries in Africa who are being punished by this policy that Trump, who is not the president. He lost by 10 million votes. Let’s just remember - 3 for Hillary and 7 for other people. … I have yet to call him the president,” she said.
“And to the spirits of Rosie Jimenez and all those in Africa who have left us because of the policies, the killing policies of this country, I just have one note of news, which is that the Republican Governor of Illinois just overturned the entire Hyde Amendment so that abortions are now available to everybody, not just to women who can afford them,” Steinem said.
“And this is big, because this is the state where Jesse Helms came from, so Trump is so bad that even some Republicans are woke,” she added.
Steinem closed by saying what she believes to be true about emotions, saying that “laughter is the only free emotion,” because “you can compel fear, obviously, but you can also compel love if people are kept dependent for long enough.”
“But you can’t compel laughter. It happens when two things come together and suddenly make a third. It happens when you understand something. It’s when you learn something, so I give that to you as a measure,” she said.
Then she warned: “Do not hang out any place where they won’t let you laugh, including churches and temples.”
The March for Racial Justice is described on its website as “is a multi-community movement led by a coalition united in our demands for racial equity and justice. We march because as long as U.S. laws, policies, and practices remain steeped in white supremacy, we will never see our basic human rights and civil rights fully realized.”
“It is our duty to dismantle this system of racist laws, policies, and practices that dehumanize people of color. Our mission is to harness the national unrest and help focus it into a national mobilization of people committed to working in local and nationwide efforts to undo racism until justice is won for us all,” the website added.
I thought you would agree, because you’re talking about facts we can talk about, instead of locked into some ideological construct that I don’t even see what your point is, but it requires ALL CAPS.
I think natives of the Americas are closer to east Asian than are Austro-Pacific natives. It’s an interesting point, for the “racism” obsessed, that the “blackest” people in the world are natives of Guadalcanal and nearby islands, not any African natives.
Yup...sheer lunacy, insanity, and weirdness.
In practice, it's more complex, or Native American groups who were culturally and genetically very close wouldn't have identified themselves as deadly enemies. Perhaps, in difficult survival situations, humans define "like me" down to a very fine calibration.
But even that is too simplistic ...
I agree, "breeds of humans" doesn't sound right, but it might be a useful concept. On the other hand, we're supposed to be reasonable. We could say "nation" or "culture" or something non-biological to emphasize our differences. On the other, other hand, there is something biological, or the top marathoners wouldn't all be Ethiopian or Kenyan.
God is a male chauvinist pig?
Or maybe she envisions the Engineers from Alien(s).
What use is there for hair color as a designation?
Driver’s license requires it.
It’s really a shame that this subject can’t usually be discussed rationally. I find it quite interesting.
I believe that every group and subgroup you can create will have certain strengths and weaknesses when compared to other groups. Isolate the two groups long enough and those strengths and weaknesses will be amplified through the generations. This doesn’t mean one group, breed or whatever is superior, just that they have some things they are strong at and others they are weak at relative to other groups.
Even within the same family individuals can have massive differences in abilities and aptitudes. Two of my children are as different as different can be when it comes to their strengths and weaknesses. Give them mates with similar traits and isolate them and their descendants for thousands of years and the resulting populations would still probably show similar strengths and weaknesses as the original two siblings in my opinion.
“-——saying that “laughter is the only free emotion,” because “you can compel fear, obviously, but you can also compel love if people are kept dependent for long enough.”
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This makes as much sense as Maya Angelou’s poetry.
The only reaction to both is,”huh?”.
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Do you know what Mediterranean F=Greeks and Italians and French look like?
Hint, hint...NOTHING at all like a mixed race person!
Your "opinion", which isn't based on ANY science nor in depth study, or even in factual historical evidence, is not only worthless, but patently ridiculous in the extreme!
The Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Phonecians, and Carthaginians where ALL Caucasoids and they didn't intermarry with those of the Negroid race!
I keep posting FACTS to you, which you ignore. Read my posts and learn something, instead of making stuff up, in your head and then posting it.
Better still...since the subject appears to interest you, go to a GOOD library and take out OLD books about genetics ( do read the works of Gregor Mendel ), a translation of Caesar's GALLIC WARS, Virgil's THE AENEID, and as many factual books about ancient history and people as you can find.
We DO know that Julius Caesar "mated" with an Africa. Her name was Cleopatra ( the last of a long line of Ptolemaic/GREEK rulers of Egypt...who NEVER had progeny by a Negroid African! )and she was a 100% Caucasoid!
We also now know, re DNA testing, that an escaping boat load of Ancient Jewish men, who were mostly of the the priesthood, made it , all the way to what is now South Africa, did marry Negroid African women, and their current male descendants ( who are all Negroid looking and have NO Semetic physical characteristics...NONE, today ! ) ALL carry the special Rabbinc Cohen gene. So the Lemba tribe throws your theory into a cocked hat!
Oh...you DO keep stepping into it! LOL
The Annu, of Japan have CURLY hair and they ARE Caucasoids!
Some Europeans have straight hair, some of them have curly hair, some have wavy hair and NONE of THAT has a damned thing re marring a black person!
The Neanderthals weren't a different RACE; they were a different type of human being!
What a rambling mess of crazy
Excellent summary, thank you for the information.
Liberals love science. Except when they don’t.
Thanks...much appreciated. :-)
The woman is apparently still alive.
Reality rebuts her.
Invented? like created by God invented?
brave or squaw?
IF IT IS FALSE, IT IS NOT A FACT.
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