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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually don't know that much about her. But what I do know repulses me.

archive.today • What We Talk About When We Talk About Elizabeth Bruenig | by Jude Ellison S. Doyle | Jul, 2022 | Medium

The once-beloved “leftist” is facing backlash for her anti-abortion views. Why did it take this long?

Jul 20, 2022

This bit is highlighted...

To strip women and trans people of agency, violate their bodies, kill thousands of them, and then throw the survivors some free diapers isn’t “leftism;” it’s barbarism with a sheen of feel-good charity to make it sell.

There's a lot more I could quote but I'll just mention this...

Consider a sentence from that 2014 piece on “pro-life liberalism:” “Since we care enough about the outcome of pregnancy to insist against abortion, then we must continue to care about the outcome when abortion is no longer a legal option.” Did you catch it? I didn’t, at first. It’s so subtle, just a whiff of a suggestion of a hint of a teeeeeensy tell: “When abortion is no longer a legal option.”

Not “if.” When.

For Elizabeth Bruenig, the overturn of Roe has always been both possible and desirable. Her “leftism” is simple cleanliness: She wants to be standing just far enough away that she won’t be spattered with blood when the axe falls.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That just sounds like a hit piece. Wringing your hands over the word "when" instead of "if" is such a goober line. How do you get "desirable" from that. Plus at this point abortion literally is illegal in multiple states.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

A couple times and I tried and failed to read Bruenig's own articles on abortion among other things. What she believes personally is her business. But there's no need for her to spend 1,000s of words of obfuscation that she's anti-abortion. She can just say something like "Personally I do not believe in abortion. However..." It's not hard. But she'll never do that because it hurts her brand. She also routinely deletes all her tweets. She seems full of bullshit as far as I am concerned.

I'm now tempted to read her Trump Jesus article. But The Atlantic is garbage and her double speak gives me a migraine.