extremists

[keryx]

Planned Parenthood sent me an email today about Harriet Miers' 'extremist views' being exposed, and it made me giggle, in a gallowsy way.

Was anyone really suprised [sure we're not happy about it, but were you really shocked?] to find out she's adamantly anti-abortion? I mean, hello - evangelical Christian! I'm sure there are evangelicals who are pro-choice, but it's not exactly the norm.

I'm a bit bothered by the disrespect that movements exhibit towards each other. Being strongly anti-abortion isn't any more extremist than my staunch pro-abortion position. Calling someone "extremist" is just a means of discrediting them, and it shouldn't be. Extremists make change happen; they're visionaries and activists if you agree with them, after all.

Comments

[peregrin8.livejournal.com]

Being strongly anti-abortion isn't any more extremist than my staunch pro-abortion position.

hmm, I disagree. Favoring the illegalization of something that happens quite frequently across the US is a pretty extreme position, not at all comparable to favoring greater access to a legal procedure.

[cutegaychick.livejournal.com]

I think we should take her. The people we think of as extremists are calling her a liberal. If the conservatives don't like her, I think it could be a lot worse.

[begraven.livejournal.com]

I love the icon!

[begraven.livejournal.com]

Extremists are scary. They actually care enough about something to take a stand and do something *gasp*

[mellowtomysoul.livejournal.com]

i agree that extremist's may be the wrong word. terrorists and murderers is much more appropriate. and honestly, i feel like anything that can discredit them is only a positive thing.

but then again, i get to see the faces of guilt and shame that these people put in my clients faces and i know what it's like to have to turn patients away because of the fucked up restrictions these "extremists" have made law.

and i personally think she sucks cause she's trying to take away my job! ;)

[hope-persists.livejournal.com]

Calling someone "extremist" is just a means of discrediting them, and it shouldn't be. Extremists make change happen; they're visionaries and activists if you agree with them, after all.

word. this is the way i feel about the word radical, too.

[sonicage.livejournal.com]

I disagree too. Not that it really matters. But I think the pro-life movement is extremist by definition because it seeks to completely outlaw abortion. There are very few in the pro-abortion movement that want to institute laws that force abortions on people. The majority of the pro-life movement explicitly wants to force people to have babies regardless of the circumstances.

[orkid.livejournal.com]

re: miers. no. not a bit surprising.

as for extremism, i associate that term with static polarization and a kind of mental rigidity, one that doesn't permit self-examination and re-evaluation of one's position on an issue. refusal to think about the issue beyond a certain point. for me, it is different from commitment and it is negative.

for the other thing, the positive change-making thing you're talking about, i like the word radical. it conjures up those crazy unpaired electrons that go around getting involved in chemical reactions.

but that's just me, and i like your way of thinking about being extreme. :)

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