re: #272 darthstar

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It’s extremely inelegant, but I don’t think it’s racist or intended as such. It’s merely an extension of the longstanding practice of comparing abortion to slavery, and Roe v. Wade to Dred Scott. The idea is that if you believe that a group of people is suffering a severe injustice (be it abortion or slavery), it’s not enough simply to refrain from inflicting that injustice personally.

Whatever one thinks of the validity of the comparison, it’s not intrinsically racist. In fact, the comparison makes no sense at all without the assumption that slavery was a great evil.