Comments by "June VanDerMark" (@junevandermark952) on "Fox News"
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I suggest that if the majority of people were left-handed, the right would be perceived as being "sinister."
From the book … Cultural Anthropology by Selby Garretson
A result from psychology
In American culture we feel that things on the right are somehow better, more reliable, and stronger than things on the left.
To understand why we feel this way involves going into the languages and traditions of Western culture and asking about the symbolic history of ideas “right” and “left.” The word for “left’ in Latin is sinister, and the word for “right” is dexter. “Left” in our culture’s history has been associated with “evil” or “anomalous” or “dangerous”; while “right” is associated with the law (droit, the word for “law” in French, is derived from Latin dexter and “law” or “right”) In politics, “left” means “change society to new (sinister) forms, while “right” means “keep things as they are,” or “keep going straight ahead.” Even recently, parents used to give their left-handed children problems, and no end of moral misgiving over their “affliction.” They would often make them change to being right-handed, perhaps even doing harm to the psychological well-being of the child. This preference for right-handedness persists, even though it has been estimated that up to 10 percent of the people in America are naturally left-handed.
This system of logic by oppositions is by no means confined to our society or culture. It is found all over the world.
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I always figured people that badmouth the left or the right, seem to think they have found the "line" in the middle, that makes their opinions and behaviors superior. What a joke we are, on ourselves.
When demonstrations of angry adults last too long, often, mob violence is the end result, with nothing good accomplished. Such behavior reminds me of the quote, "Even friendly mobs, have the smell of the beast" ... author unknown.
Whoever organized this disorganization, should have taken the complaints to court, rather than to the streets. That is the way civil people behave. Let the Supreme Court judges decide the matter.
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For helping women who wanted abortions ... would you label these members of clergy as being moral ... or immoral?
From the book … Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice ... author ... Dr. Willie Parker
Ethical Abortion Care
An estimated 450,000 women called on the Clergy Consultation Service for help in the six years before Roe--and the coalition, which started with twenty-one members, grew to two thousand. Activism by Moody's group helped propel New York's legislature to legalize abortion in 1970, the first state in the nation to do so.
Emboldened by its success, the Clergy Consultation Service then began to help women from other states travel to New York to obtain safe and legal abortions, and then, breaking with medical establishment, these same clerics proposed the model for the first abortion clinic. Believing that women's privacy and autonomy would be better served if they could get their abortion care in a freestanding clinic instead of in a hospital. Moody's group worked with a doctor committed to providing "low cost, quality care, humane treatment and a willingness to serve the poor" in a freestanding place. Women's Services, on Manhattan's Upper East Side, was the first abortion clinic in the country.
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