Is the Anti-Choice Agenda Fueled by White Supremacy?

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During the 1990s the term — white supremacy — was either a historical description of America’s social hierarchy before the success of the Civil Rights Movement or a reference to an archaic doctrine held by small Neo-Nazi groups.

Shelby Steele, a Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, made an important observation in 2006. He stated: The most important event in the late 20th century, even more than the collapse of communism that happened in the 1980s, was the collapse of white supremacy. White supremacy was an idea in the world for centuries and organized the entire globe. After World War II revolutions began from one end of the globe to another, and these revolutions succeeded. The Western powers retreated. Britain and France withdrew from their colonies. The Civil Rights Movement in America was victorious. The idea that whiteness in and of itself constituted authority was killed off. Steele lamented the defeat of white supremacy had gone unacknowledged.

Then Donald Trump ran for president in 2016.

Suddenly, the term white supremacy was injected back into the mainstream discourse. Prominent liberals admitted the left labeled previous Republican candidates racists just to defeat them, but they never thought those individuals were racists. This time, the left was convinced Trump was a…