The Advertising Standards Authority ruled yesterday that there was nothing wrong with the recent television advertisement for Marie Stopes International.
Oh, yes, there was.
Specifically, that advert failed mention her extravagant, versified love letters to Hitler. Or that she disowned her own son because he married a woman who wore glasses. Or her campaign for the compulsory sterilisation of "the C3 population", of "half-castes" and of "revolutionaries", among numerous others. Or the dozens of clinics that she opened in working class areas to reduce the number of "undesirables" by persuasion if force were politically impossible.
Yet those clinics were the very thing being advertised. They still carry her name. Our televisions now carry their adverts. Our 50p stamps have recently carried her image. And we all carry the shame.
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And yet, some people get upset when the Pope comes to visit. I doubt those types would have a problem with Stopes stamps or adverts.
ReplyDeleteWe have our own types like that in America, but ours tend to gravitate towards Margaret Sanger. The reactions you get when you tell them that she was a racist eugenicist and provide irrefutable evidence of such is priceless.