More dumbassery than you can shake a wire hanger at.
THIS JUST IN: part of your head just exploded.
In pushing this bill through, Republicans in Arizona relied on “statistics” showing that a high percentage of minority women are seeking abortions in clinics purposefully located in minority communities. Republicans also cited statistics demonstrating that some populations are seeking more and more abortions because they don’t like the sex of the fetus (really!? no the fuck they’re not.)
BREAKING: the rest of your head just exploded.
Essentially, this law attempts to turn abortion into a hate crime in order to lend an air of credibility to the absolutely bullshit theory that abortion is some sort of black genocide.
::sigh::
Here’s the thing about hate crimes: They are different from “regular” crimes in that proof of hate crimes require proof of a little somethin’ extra — prejudicial motivation.
For example: It’s one thing to assault a guy and steal his wallet. It’s quite another thing to assault a guy while calling him a homo and screaming about how you’re going to teach queers a lesson, and then steal his wallet. Both are crimes. The latter is fairly undeniably a hate crime.
Of course, the former may also be a hate crime; maybe the assailant only steals gay people’s wallets and maybe he keeps a journal somewhere entitled Number of Queer Wallets Stolen. Suck it, Homos! which can be introduced as evidence against him. But unless a prosecutor can prove a prejudicial motivation beyond a reasonable doubt, no conviction for a hate crime will result.
In order to morph a run-of-the-mill assault – an act intended to cause an apprehension of harmful or offensive contact, and which causes apprehension in the victim that harmful or offensive contact is imminent — into a hate crime, a prosecutor must prove that the accused’s undisclosed intent was based upon prejudice.
So, not only does a prosecutor have to get inside the accused’s mind to prove intent, the prosecutor must then go one layer deeper into the accused’s mind to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that bias or prejudice formed the foundation for that intent.
If you’re confused, you should be. A hate crime is, essentially, the Inception of crimes — a crime within a crime.
With that in mind, I give you a brief rant:
First of all, how dare these Teabilly assholes pretend to care about the plight of the Negro, when the very same Teabillies are gutting and intend to further gut the social programs on which black and brown women rely in order to keep their babymakers in check? I mean, Jesus F. Bieber — how can they defund Planned Parenthood on the one hand, but then deem the abortion rate in the black community to have reached such critical levels that it should be called genocide? How can they not see that these issues are directly related?! What the hell is wrong with them?! (That’s a rhetorical question.)
Second of all, how in THEE hell are they going to get inside an abortion doctor’s head to determine whether or not s/he would have been less inclined to perform the procedure had the fetus been of a different race? Are there scads of “Black Baby B’Gone” clinics from which this law is intended to protect black ladies?
Looky here: You’re not fooling anyone, assholes. It is plain that you are using this “black genocide” angle to push your anti-abortion agenda. How stupid do you think we are?
Furthermore, how stupid are you? If your little plan works, and brown women have fewer abortions, we’re just going to outbreed you! Yeah, let that little nugget of OMG! sink in for a while. You need to decide which you hate more: Brown people or dead babies.
I swear, I’m going to go have a half dozen babies tomorrow – out of spite.
And in about 20 years, when my spite babies are all growns up, they’re going to join forces with all the terrorist anchor babies and BLOW YOUR SHIT UP.
[via Right Wing Watch]
(H/T @aliceinthewater!)
[cross-posted here at Balloon Juice]
Very well put. Kudos to you!
Here’s the thing about hate crimes: They are different from “regular” crimes in that proof of hate crimes require proof of a little somethin’ extra — prejudicial motivation.
You know that, and I know that, but a lot of right-wingers don’t. People opposed to bias enhancements like to tell their followers that hate crime statutes create “protected classes.” As a result, there are a sizable number of people out there who sincerely believe that, if a white person commits a crime against a black person, it’s automatically a hate crime. That’s not the end of it, either – I heard from one guy who was under the impression that a bias enhancement added 30 years to one’s sentence.
Want your head to explode just a little bit more? Take a look at this ad, brought to you by the same people who did the little black girl on the abortion, it’s all an evil plot to kill all teh black babies ad. Moar billboardy goodness.
HOLY FUCK.
Yep. That’s what I thought, but didn’t say, ‘coz I can’t. They really are scrapping the dregs now.
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!
“Hey, black people, stop aborting your babies or you could erase the NEXT Kenyan Secret Islamo-facist-Hitler baby to be elected to the Presidency and be constantly challenged by the TeaBillies who hate having a President of Jungle-hopper ancestry!!”
Logic, how does it fucking WORK????????
I am no longer amazed or astounded; simply resigned to the fact that these people continue to concoct these schemes and attempt to foist them on people who KNOW that they are mongering complete bullshit.
And the Obama billboards? Dear God.
This is becoming like Minority Report.
mixed with Zoolander.
i feel like i’m taking crazy pills.
So Arizona has gone after the Latinos, the black folks and next they will be going after the Asians.
This evil bitch is emptying out her state as about as fast as Rand Paul lies.
Who in the hell would wanna live in Arizona except them teabaggers?
…and the irony is the state’s location. FAIL…@_o
Looky here: You’re not fooling anyone, assholes. It is plain that you are using this “black genocide” angle to push your anti-abortion agenda. How stupid do you think we are?
Sadly, they do occasionally fool someone. I have an African-American friend who bought into the “black genocide” canard after her children were born and they were sooooo precious that she became anti-abortion. (She did later spend some time in a psych ward, so maybe we don’t have too much to worry about, though.)