The discourse around the leaked draft of the Supreme Court opinion on Roe v Wade has illuminated a significant 'psy-op' (rly just a bigger than usual media buy on the part of foreign and some domestic actors) that intends to re-write the history Roe v Wade and abortion in America as some type of performative or "liberal" issue. According to this revisionist perspective, the project to enshrine abortion rights via the Supreme Court was some sort of liberal-capitalist vanity project/tactic that was always, despite the widespread support for abortion rights, somehow "anti-democratic" according to this discourse ("the republicans have won the supreme court by subverting democracy, but the democrats did the original sin when they pursued roe v wade in the courts to the exclusion of federal legislation", they will tell you this with a straight face and s mug tone). The function of this framing is to resonate with the gender critical movement and the big dumb celebrity trial going on rn to strengthen currents of anti-feminism and misogyny within the faux overly online "progressive" movement. The anti-feminist tendency functions to fracture progressive actors and keep potential leftists actors passive. Some other nonsense you might see is a claim that pro-abortion policies were originally a republican or rightwing strategy to lower the population of people of color (no historical facts support this). You might also hear that the democrats never passed legislation to protect the right to abortion because they want to keep using the urgency of the issue as a fundraising tactic (not accurate to the actual complexity of how the issue has developed and what policy considerations exist wrt it) (note this is not the same as denying the claim that it is "the lefts'" fault that roe got overturned, which is a different but still stupid and insidious revisionist frame that has been attempted itt). All of these claims are intended to make people feel ambivalent about people being stripped of their rights rapidly, and should be treated as disinformation where encountered.
thx for reading my tedx talk.
thx for reading my tedx talk.
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