This week’s Liberal Media Scream features one of America’s top liberal black voices and a regular CNN guest claiming that white conservatives oppose abortion because they fear becoming a minority race.
Appearing on CNN Tonight last week, Michael Eric Dyson said that “white replacement theory” is the motivator behind why conservatives oppose abortion. “There’s a newfangled twist to it here — the explicit expression that we are fearful of genetically disappearing, right?” he said.
Data of mothers who report having abortions, however, show that more black people than white, 38%-33%, opt for the procedure.
But that doesn’t fit the Left’s posture that the hot-button issue boils down to racism, not religion or fostering life.
“When you tie it all together, white replacement theory, anti-CRT argument, the insistence that abortion be banned and that white babies, in particular, be born — this is all of a larger piece. And that larger piece is the fear of whiteness disappearing in the face of a worldwide global expansion of people of color,” said Dyson, Vanderbilt University’s centennial chairman and university distinguished professor of African American and diaspora studies.
Dyson, on the May 18 CNN Tonight hosted by Laura Coates:
“So, as odd and as exceptional as the white replacement theory looks, there’s a newfangled twist to it here — the explicit expression that we are fearful of genetically disappearing, right? We know that in, what, 20-some-odd years, white people will no longer be the statistical majority in this country. And when you tie it all together, white replacement theory, anti-CRT argument, the insistence that abortion be banned and that white babies, in particular, be born — this is all of a larger piece. And that larger piece is the fear of whiteness disappearing in the face of a worldwide global expansion of people of color. And right here in this nation, we will not be replaced by Jews, by blacks, by Latinos and others. That’s part of the tragedy that has to constantly be dealt with and seen as a throughline from white supremacy, beginning before 1619 on down to today.”
Brent Baker, vice president of research and publications for the Media Research Center, explains our weekly pick: “So much for CNN becoming more rational under new ownership. Dyson’s ludicrous theory, beyond its wild conspiracy assumptions about a widespread effort by white people to eliminate ‘people of color,’ doesn’t make much sense. A much larger percent of pregnancies to black than white women end in abortion, so banning all abortions would mean the birth of more black babies compared to white ones.”
Rating: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
