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Entry: Margaret Sanger and the Eugenics Meme Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/margaret_sanger_and_the_eugenics_meme#24577 Post contents: I take Mr. Epstein's column for the sound advice that it is in that pro-lifers and other patriots ought to avoid the favored battle cry of the Marxists - e.g., shouting "Hypocrisy!" in order to gain a rhetorical advantage. Neither should we wield another favored Marxist tool - e.g., assailing some position or other of the Left's via shallow, 'drive by' guilt-by-association smears. It would be more fruitful to explain that while Magaret Sanger's views on immigration, as quoted by Mr. Epstein, were sound, her views on eugenics were immoral and promoting the former in no way allows or encourages a pursuit of the latter. The Left has gained much traction by demanding that its opposition be 'perfect' before becoming legitimate. None other than hoary old Newt Gingrich often said to fellow conservatives: "Don't let the perfect become the enemy of the good". Sent at: 2008 10 07