Think what you like about Ross Douthat, but publishing this at the New York Times is a genuine truth-to-power moment on his part. Somebody’s going to try to get him fired for writing this. It’s exactly the sort of thing that NYT readers generally want to avoid thinking about:
…real knowledge isn’t purely theoretical; it’s the fruit of experience, recognition, imagination, life itself.
And the problem these videos create for Planned Parenthood isn’t just a generalized queasiness at surgery and blood.
It’s a very specific disgust, informed by reason and experience — the reasoning that notes that it’s precisely a fetus’s humanity that makes its organs valuable, and the experience of recognizing one’s own children, on the ultrasound monitor and after, as something more than just “products of conception” or tissue for the knife.
Put another way: Planned Parenthood can lie about ‘deceptive editing’ until the cows come home. But it wasn’t deceptive editing that put those necromancer’s masks just under the surface of Deborah Nucatola and Mary Gatter’s faces. It was spending decades breathing in the noxious spiritual fumes of the abortion industry. And that’s not something that can be discounted so easily.
I wonder what we’ll see next week. I also dread what we’ll see. Because – just like the NYT’s readership – I didn’t really want to think about this stuff, either. But I guess that that option is now closed.
Moe Lane (crosspost)
what you will almost certainly see is Ross leaving. i hope he’ll make them fire him rather than forcing a resignation. what you will almost certainly not see is a wave of revulsion among NYT readers. because some things are just not fit to print, or to be read. even this is just not horrible enough to break thru their shells. their souls are comatose.
You give far too much credit. They have no souls. They are not humans. They are vote generating units for the democrats.
point taken. i was being sentimental. i just poked into the comments section of his article. Christian Sharia was a common phrase. also sanctimonious. the hate was almost physically felt. he hit one big ol’ nerve. side note – David Brooks works there and seems to have a working soul. when is HE gonna put out something like this?
Careful, there .. while some subset of the individuals you’re discussing most certainly are high-functioning sociopaths, the vast majority are humans, who try very hard to not let the reality of their support for this behavior come into focus.
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De-humanizing them is *extremely dangerous*.
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Mew
“Christian Sharia”? They won’t admit that actual sharia is bad, but this imaginary thing they’ll rail against.
“the reasoning that notes that it’s precisely a fetus’s humanity that makes its organs valuable”
Nail.
Hammer.
Force as required.
Haven’t yet seen elsewhere such a perfect summary of what’s WRONG here.
Yeah, my guess is that this involves a knife blade a little too long for the Times to tolerate.
Yes, all along, the pro-abortionists have been rabid in their efforts to keep people (and there is a difference philosophically for the “pro-choice” and the “pro-abortionists”)from thinking of the aborted fetus as anything but human, meaningful, alive, feeling pain, etc. That’s why they fought against ultrasounds before a woman’s final decision…
Even I didn’t realize until now why they were for unfettered, no time restrictions for abortion. It makes nauseating sense now.
Pro-abortionists are simply fascists, and while one can’t speak of their souls, (though I believe they have none)- they’d have been right at home in the Third Reich. (I call them fascists because the analogy to Nazis doesn’t mean anything anymore.) But the type of human being they are is analogous and relevant.
the Times published it, i’m guessing that they could tolerate it, if barely. the readers, on the other hand, the few hundred or so that are left, could not.
CMP , the folks that made the video , is now square in the sights of the DOJ Thought Police . ( Lynching to be conducted by Ms Lynch , tee hee )They will need money to defend themselves and the babies . Ace has the link for contributing $$ . Do it now .