CockneyRebel wrote:
Welcome back.
There are some political things here that piss me off here. I might be branded by some people here as far-right because of a few beliefs I have especially about life issues and the protection of all life. That's no reason for me to change my avatar or to leave.
It's mostly right-wing parties that embrace antiabortion positions, but the broader pro-life position isn't an inherently right-wing, or far right. Like, aren't opposition to war, the death penalty and killing animals for human use all pro-life stances? People who take a
consistent life ethnic stance like that don't tend to get welcomed fondly in a lot of right-wing circles.
Picking on the NSDAP for a moment, they only opposed Aryan women aborting healthy pregnancies. They were pro-abortion when it came to potential birth defects, and for non-Aryans. They were also pro-murdering all sorts of born people for all sorts of reasons. They most certainly weren't pro-life by any definition.
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Those targeted for murder under Nazi eugenics policies were largely people living in private and state-operated institutions, identified as "life unworthy of life" (Lebensunwertes Leben). They included prisoners, degenerates, dissidents, and people with congenital cognitive and physical disabilities (Erbkranken) – people who were considered to be feeble-minded. In fact being diagnosed with "feeblemindedness" (German: Schwachsinn) was the main label approved in forced sterilization, which included people who were diagnosed by a doctor as, or otherwise seemed to be:
- Epileptic
- Schizophrenic
- Manic-depressive (now known as bipolar)
- Suffering from Cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy
- Deaf and/or blind
- Homosexual or "transvestites" (which at the time was used to refer to intersex and transgender people, particularly trans women)
- Anyone else considered to be idle, insane, and/or weak as per "feeblemindedness"
Discomfort with abortion is pretty common across the political spectrum. It's mostly a question of whether or not banning access to it is morally sound, as well as who's rights are required to take priority.
The right seems to largely be antiabortion, not because they believe life is sacred but instead because they find those lives useful. I'd argue
genuine pro-life motives make one less far-right, not more.
I think it would be unfair to brand you as far-right because of your pro-life position. People mistake that and the German fanboy tendencies as reflective of much more when you're too motivated by compassion to fit well with the far-right.
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