Message 30162416
"It was also heartsickening for me, because I knew the person who was involved. I know her heart. I know her skill. I know her commitment to reproductive rights and reproductive justice. It was heartsickening to then watch her be put in this situation where her words are twisted, as Rudyard Kipling says, "Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools," and to also lend credence to people who don't trust folk to deal with reality. They have to create a parallel universe, an alternate reality, to have any kind of traction with the public. If they really trusted people to deal with the complexities of life, if you really want to do an exposé video, why would you take a video and edit it and chop it up and make it sound like what you want it to sound like?
To me, it's infuriating that people will take something as serious as a woman's need to have access to this care and decide that by any means necessary they will undermine that.
I came to realize that my colleague and friend had undergone this hatchet job by having her words minced and edited and taken out of context. I felt pain for her.
To me, it's infuriating that people will take something as serious as a woman's need to have access to this care and decide that by any means necessary they will undermine that. It's unsettling. It's enraging. For me, it makes me more resolute to continue doing my work. Dr. King said that the end has to be pre-existing in the means. In other words, there's no right way to do the wrong thing. The fact that there are no ethics, there are no scruples, in people who claim to hold the moral high ground and who seek to indict others for offering compassionate care that is accepted in general by the public, it is the ultimate irony. It is the ultimate paradox that you will deceive to bring about truth. I don't understand how that works." |
