Sexist, Racist Republicans Compare Immigrant Women to Farm Animals

[marmar]

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Posted by jenphillips at 11:36 am
August 4, 2010

Sexist, Racist Republicans Compare Immigrant Women to Farm Animals
Posted by jenphillips on @ 11:36 am


This post first appeared on Mother Jones.

Several Republican Congressmen, including Jon Kyl (Ariz.), Mitch McConnell (KY), and Lindsey Graham (SC) have been calling for revisions or hearings on the 14th Amendment, which grants US citizenship to any child born on its soil. Even Arizona’s John McCain (who was born in Panama, by the way) has agreed, if reluctantly, that having Congressional hearings on the 14th would be a good thing. I might believe they were genuinely concerned about the Constitution (rather than attracting a conservative base for upcoming elections) if it weren’t for the virulent racism and sexism underlying the statements of many with their eyes on the 14th.

Case in point: According to an email circulated by Arizona state Senator Russell Pearce, undocumented immigrant women don’t “give birth” or “have a baby” or “start a family”: they “drop” a child. “If we are going to have an effect on the anchor baby racket, we need to target the mother. Call it sexist, but that’s the way nature made it. Men don’t drop anchor babies, illegal alien mothers do,” read the email. One California activist called it “invasion by birth canal” and Sen. Lindsey Graham said that: “They come here to drop a child. It’s called ‘drop and leave.’”

The use of the word “drop” by 14th Amendment revisionists is deliberate. Not only does one “drop” anchor, the word “drop” is also used when animals give birth. Mares will “drop” a foal, for example, or you can buy a “drop calf”: one that’s been taken from its mother shortly after birth. Women only “drop” a baby when the fetus descends into the pelvis, or they physically lose their grasp of on an infant. Equating women, regardless of their legal status, with farm animals is just plain offensive. ........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/08/04/sexist-racist-republicans-compare-immigrant-women-to-farm-animals/

[Bitwit1234]

1. Well MEN don't have babies, but don't they have something to do

with it. I always thought it took two. And if they women are wealthy enough to have artifical insemination they wouldn't need to come to this country and have babies.

Just like abortion. Women are the ones targeted by republican men who think
they are God and that they can control the lives of women everywhere.

[felix_numinous]

2. Is there a Nazi faction of the Republican Party?

Who else would compare human beings to animals? They talk of killing gays, liberals, Mexicans, are fanatical religious bigots and white supremacists, and want women to be breeders. They want a police-military state and not a democracy, and want to dumb down education. I don't see any difference, and their creeping insane policies are very disturbing.

[bring_em_home_bush]

3. well, you never know, they may have perfectly legitimate reasons for sounding exactly like bigots

We really must consider this issue from all Angles.



um, yeah, /sarcasm