Notre Dame professors call pro-life activism a ‘white supremacist strategy’

[redleghunter]

Notre Dame has surely taken a hard turn left.

Notre Dame professors call pro-life activism a ‘white supremacist strategy’

SOUTH BEND, Indiana, February 18, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) ― After showing students pro-abortion propaganda, two University of Notre Dame faculty members suggested that the pro-life movement is fuelled by white supremacy.

The viewing of the propaganda film Reversing Roe and subsequent discussion was sponsored by Notre Dame pro-abortion student group Irish 4 Reproductive Health, the Gender Studies Program of Notre Dame, and Saint Mary's Department of Gender and Women's Studies.

In a detailed report on the January 22 event, Ellie Gardey of Notre Dame’s Irish Rover newspaper recorded the professors’ jaw-dropping remarks.

According to Gardey, Dianne Pinderhughes, a Notre Dame professor of political science, began a panel discussion of Reversing Roe by stating that pro-lifers were most likely to be those who want to keep America “white.”

“(Abortion) is an issue that allows for an effort to control the place of women,” she said.

“I’m sure you figured that out, or you wouldn’t be at this event. But also how people will reproduce, what the population will be, what it will be like,” she continued.

“Those who push so aggressively for reproduction, continued reproduction without any controls, are those who are also more likely to be in support of making sure the country stays predominantly, overwhelmingly white.”

Pam Butler, the associate director of Notre Dame’s gender studies program, agreed that pro-life activism springs from white supremacist beliefs.

“(Abortion) got politicized in a moment of a white supremacist strategy of the right wing of the Republican Party to mobilize a very specific set of evangelical Christians in the United States as a base,” she said.

[...]

William Dempsey is the Chairman of Sycamore Trust, a group of Notre Dame alumni and alumnae committed to defending and preserving the university’s Catholic character. He told LifeSiteNews that the establishment of the gender studies is to blame for abortion propagandizing at Notre Dame.

“This pro-abortion event was unprecedented at Notre Dame,” he said by email.

Dempsey stated that it testified to the character of the gender studies program at the school and the growing influence of Irish 4 Reproductive Health in promoting contraception and freedom to abort.

“There was not a word about the central role of the Catholic Church or the burning faith of pro-life Catholics and Evangelicals for the simple reason that no one was allowed on the panel who would speak it,” he said.

“Irish 4 has now been welcomed by the University as a sponsor of a pro-abortion event even as it is suing the university in federal district court to compel it to offer students free abortifacients. How bizarre!”

Pro-life educator Ryan Bomberger, who is black, told LifeSiteNews that the suggestions the pro-life movement is fuelled by white supremacy would be “laughable if it weren’t about the slaughter of over 62 million human lives since Roe.”

“Rabidly pro-abortion Notre Dame professors ... calling pro-lifers ‘racists’ for tireless efforts to protect mothers and their unborn children, regardless of race or ethnicity, is truly a Twilight Zone moment,” he said.

“It’s a bizarre form of projection as they defend a violent institution actually birthed in eugenic racism and elitism. What worldview does the University of Notre Dame even hold to hire those whose extremist ideology is in direct conflict with Catholicism?” Bomberger asked.




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Notre Dame professors call pro-life activism a ‘white supremacist strategy’

 

[chevyontheriver]

“(Abortion) got politicized in a moment of a white supremacist strategy of the right wing of the Republican Party to mobilize a very specific set of evangelical Christians in the United States as a base,” she said.

If you want racism, start with Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood. And look at who gets aborted more. Abortion IS racial, but it is the abortionists who kill disproportionately more non-white babies.

As to Notre Dame, present leadership under Fr. Jenkins has been every bit as bad as the bad off Theodore Hesburg days. Give it long enough and Notre Dame will be as bad as Georgetown, the fake catholic university in the nation's capital.

 

[redleghunter]

If you want racism, start with Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood. And look at who gets aborted more. Abortion IS racial, but it is the abortionists who kill disproportionately more non-white babies.

As to Notre Dame, present leadership under Fr. Jenkins has been every bit as bad as the bad off Theodore Hesburg days. Give it long enough and Notre Dame will be as bad as Georgetown, the fake catholic university in the nation's capital.

Georgetown (Jesuit) is no surprise. That happened before my college age. I went to a Jesuit university and saw the beginnings of the transformation from the older traditional Jesuits to the Liberation theology Jesuits.

 

[jkjk]

Notre Dame has surely taken a hard turn left.

Notre Dame professors call pro-life activism a ‘white supremacist strategy’

SOUTH BEND, Indiana, February 18, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) ― After showing students pro-abortion propaganda, two University of Notre Dame faculty members suggested that the pro-life movement is fuelled by white supremacy.

The viewing of the propaganda film Reversing Roe and subsequent discussion was sponsored by Notre Dame pro-abortion student group Irish 4 Reproductive Health, the Gender Studies Program of Notre Dame, and Saint Mary's Department of Gender and Women's Studies.

In a detailed report on the January 22 event, Ellie Gardey of Notre Dame’s Irish Rover newspaper recorded the professors’ jaw-dropping remarks.

According to Gardey, Dianne Pinderhughes, a Notre Dame professor of political science, began a panel discussion of Reversing Roe by stating that pro-lifers were most likely to be those who want to keep America “white.”

“(Abortion) is an issue that allows for an effort to control the place of women,” she said.

“I’m sure you figured that out, or you wouldn’t be at this event. But also how people will reproduce, what the population will be, what it will be like,” she continued.

“Those who push so aggressively for reproduction, continued reproduction without any controls, are those who are also more likely to be in support of making sure the country stays predominantly, overwhelmingly white.”

Pam Butler, the associate director of Notre Dame’s gender studies program, agreed that pro-life activism springs from white supremacist beliefs.

“(Abortion) got politicized in a moment of a white supremacist strategy of the right wing of the Republican Party to mobilize a very specific set of evangelical Christians in the United States as a base,” she said.

[...]

William Dempsey is the Chairman of Sycamore Trust, a group of Notre Dame alumni and alumnae committed to defending and preserving the university’s Catholic character. He told LifeSiteNews that the establishment of the gender studies is to blame for abortion propagandizing at Notre Dame.

“This pro-abortion event was unprecedented at Notre Dame,” he said by email.

Dempsey stated that it testified to the character of the gender studies program at the school and the growing influence of Irish 4 Reproductive Health in promoting contraception and freedom to abort.

“There was not a word about the central role of the Catholic Church or the burning faith of pro-life Catholics and Evangelicals for the simple reason that no one was allowed on the panel who would speak it,” he said.

“Irish 4 has now been welcomed by the University as a sponsor of a pro-abortion event even as it is suing the university in federal district court to compel it to offer students free abortifacients. How bizarre!”

Pro-life educator Ryan Bomberger, who is black, told LifeSiteNews that the suggestions the pro-life movement is fuelled by white supremacy would be “laughable if it weren’t about the slaughter of over 62 million human lives since Roe.”

“Rabidly pro-abortion Notre Dame professors ... calling pro-lifers ‘racists’ for tireless efforts to protect mothers and their unborn children, regardless of race or ethnicity, is truly a Twilight Zone moment,” he said.

“It’s a bizarre form of projection as they defend a violent institution actually birthed in eugenic racism and elitism. What worldview does the University of Notre Dame even hold to hire those whose extremist ideology is in direct conflict with Catholicism?” Bomberger asked.




Much more at the link:

Notre Dame professors call pro-life activism a ‘white supremacist strategy’

I disagree with Irish 4, but I respect their right to say what they believe. I would expect that they extend that same courtesy to the groups with which they disagree.

 

[redleghunter]

I disagree with Irish 4, but I respect their right to say what they believe. I would expect that they extend that same courtesy to the groups with which they disagree.

Apparently not. They did not invite any pro life staff members.

Also, important to note this is supposed to be a Catholic university.

 

[jkjk]

Apparently not. They did not invite any pro life staff members.

Also, important to note this is supposed to be a Catholic university.

I mean "expect" in the sense of requiring someone to meet an obligation.

I terms of regarding something as likely to happen, I don't "expect" anything at all.

 

[chevyontheriver]

I disagree with Irish 4, but I respect their right to say what they believe. I would expect that they extend that same courtesy to the groups with which they disagree.

It's a Catholic university and such a group should not be at a Catholic university. You can have them at your secular universities if you wish.

 

[chevyontheriver]

Georgetown (Jesuit) is no surprise. That happened before my college age. I went to a Jesuit university and saw the beginnings of the transformation from the older traditional Jesuits to the Liberation theology Jesuits.

There are a few good Jesuits out there but for the most part they self destructed long ago. And took their institutions crashing down with them. Wasteland.

 

[jkjk]

It's a Catholic university and such a group should not be at a Catholic university. You can have them at your secular universities if you wish.

Should Notre Dame shelter its students from any opposing voices and foster group think? Doesn't that sound a lot like Berkeley and Wesleyan?

 

[SolomonVII]

Anyone who calls pro-life white supremacy is as moral imbecile, living in a delusion. It used to be that people who was so out of touch with reality as to believe that would be understood to be on some kind of psychotic break.
Now they are understood to be postmodernists.

 

[SolomonVII]

Abortion has kept the ratio of blacks in America to whites lower than it would have been without abortionists marketing their products to minority communities with a special passion.

 

[chevyontheriver]

Should Notre Dame shelter its students from any opposing voices and foster group think? Doesn't that sound a lot like Berkeley and Wesleyan?

A Catholic university should be a place where Catholic ideas are taught, and in doing that the opposing ideas should be fully exposed. It should not be a place where anti-Christian moral positions are advocated for as if they were true.

Do you give time in your pulpit for non-Christian and anti-Christian views? Why not?

 

[SolomonVII]

What is most important for a Catholic education, I think, is that the Catholic culture of the campus be preserved, or restored, as the case may be.

It is a grave sin, the one of the ten that will not be treated lightly by God, that we use his name in vain. To be clear, teaching evil under the auspice of our Lady is the same as using the Lord's name in vain on her behalf.
The very claim that prolife is evil will be seen as irreal as an claim can be, as long as the culture of the university remains fully Catholic.
All the other ivy leagues have forgotten their Christian roots. This does not need to be the future of a Catholic university.

The attack on Pence's wife makes it clear enough where the 'other side' is taking this. This happens to Catholic high schools all the time now too, where having an official policy of Catholic morality is deemed to be hate, both culturally— and legally too.

To be clear, Catholic morality comes from Christ. We are the religion of the Incarnation too. We are in the army of the Holy Child in the womb of Mary.

Herod does not go down as the sympathetic character in that historic drama. Herod is a bit player compared to what any educated person has available to him now, in terms of technology and in terms of social media advocacy for any cause, even the slaughter of the innocents.

Truth is on our side. So time is on our side too. The same drama plays out more than once in the Bible too. And now the kingdom of Herod is as dead as the kingdoms of the pharaohs of Egypt. A kingdom that advocates the slaughter of children is not long for this world.
Be steadfast then.

 

[jkjk]

A Catholic university should be a place where Catholic ideas are taught, and in doing that the opposing ideas should be fully exposed. It should not be a place where anti-Christian moral positions are advocated for as if they were true.

Do you give time in your pulpit for non-Christian and anti-Christian views? Why not?

If the university and faculty are doing their jobs and inculcating Catholic values, then the university should not fear outside voices. You cannot prevent students from being exposed to dangerous ideas. Better that the students are exposed to those ideas on campus, where there are Catholic faculty who can help advise and guide the students.

The fact that the university is hiring faculty members who openly and publicly espouse anti-Catholic values, on the other hand, is deeply concerning.

 

[chevyontheriver]

If the university and faculty are doing their jobs and inculcating Catholic values, then the university should not fear outside voices. You cannot prevent students from being exposed to dangerous ideas. Better that the students are exposed to those ideas on campus, where there are Catholic faculty who can help advise and guide the students.

The fact that the university is hiring faculty members who openly and publicly espouse anti-Catholic values, on the other hand, is deeply concerning.

A Catholic university, if true to it's mission, will look at every idea critically, be afraid of nothing, and teach the depths of truth in all areas. That is different than a place where things contrary to Christ are advocated for. And that is how Notre Dame is failing, in that in some silly idea of promoting diversity they are allowing advocacy against Christ. Anti-Catholic values have no place in Catholic institutions. Either the place reforms or gives up being Catholic. As it is, one could wonder if Notre Dame is becoming Catholic in name only. Maybe they can bring it back to become again the exemplar of a Catholic university in America. We shall see. There are many at Notre Dame and alumni too that do want Notre Dame to be that again.

 

[redleghunter]

A Catholic university should be a place where Catholic ideas are taught, and in doing that the opposing ideas should be fully exposed. It should not be a place where anti-Christian moral positions are advocated for as if they were true.

A good point. It looks as if this group presented their extremist views without opposing views allowed to be presented.

 

[redleghunter]

The attack on Pence's wife makes it clear enough where the 'other side' is taking this. This happens to Catholic high schools all the time now too, where having an official policy of Catholic morality is deemed to be hate, both culturally— and legally too.

Indeed. And even self proclaimed Christians attacked Mrs. Pence for teaching at a school which enforced Biblical morals as the church has upheld since the beginning.

 

[redleghunter]

Abortion has kept the ratio of blacks in America to whites lower than it would have been without abortionists marketing their products to minority communities with a special passion.

Yes that is clear and abortion clinics not only target race but poorer communities. Sanger and the eugenics advocates of the late 19th and early 20th centuries looked to the economic inferior as a drain on resources. Back then sterilization programs were advocated.

 

[redleghunter]

Source for eugenics sterilization laws:

Eugenic Sterilization Laws

Paul Lombardo, University of Virginia

While some eugenicists privately supported practices such as euthanasia or even genocide, legally-mandated sterilization was the most radical policy supported by the American eugenics movement. A number of American physicians performed sterilizations even before the surgery was legally approved, though no reliable accounting of the practice exists prior to passage of sterilization laws. Indiana enacted the first law allowing sterilization on eugenic grounds in 1907, with Connecticut following soon after. Despite these early statutes, sterilization did not gain widespread popular approval until the late 1920s.

Advocacy in favor of sterilization was one of Harry Laughlin’s first major projects at the Eugenics Record Office. In 1914, he published a Model Eugenical Sterilization Law that proposed to authorize sterilization of the "socially inadequate" – people supported in institutions or "maintained wholly or in part by public expense. The law encompassed the "feebleminded, insane, criminalistic, epileptic, inebriate, diseased, blind, deaf; deformed; and dependent" – including "orphans, ne'er-do-wells, tramps, the homeless and paupers." By the time the Model Law was published in 1914, twelve states had enacted sterilization laws.

By 1924, approximately 3,000 people had been involuntarily sterilized in America; the vast majority (2,500) in California. That year Virginia passed a Eugenical Sterilization Act based on Laughlin’s Model Law. It was adopted as part of a cost-saving strategy to relieve the tax burden in a state where public facilities for the "insane" and "feebleminded" had experienced rapid growth. The law was also written to protect physicians who performed sterilizing operations from malpractice lawsuits. Virginia’s law asserted that "heredity plays an important part in the transmission of insanity, idiocy, imbecility, epilepsy and crime…" It focused on "defective persons" whose reproduction represented "a menace to society."

Carrie Buck, a seventeen-year-old girl from Charlottesville, Virginia, was picked as the first person to be sterilized. Carrie had a child, but was not married. Her mother Emma was already a resident at an asylum, the Virginia Colony for the Epileptic and the Feebleminded. Officials at the Virginia Colony said that Carrie and her mother shared the hereditary traits of "feeblemindedness" and sexually promiscuity. To those who believed that such traits were genetically transmitted, Carrie fit the law’s description as a "probable potential parent of socially inadequate offspring." A legal challenge was arranged on Carrie’s behalf to test the constitutional validity of the law.

Much more at link: Social Origins of Eugenics​

 

[straykat]

Ugh.. The absolute state of Catholic universities (let alone any universities).

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