Murder charges for women wanting abortions, to prevent pregnancy with IUDs, criminalizing in vitro fertilization for women desperately trying to get pregnant…
Only a fool could think this is about the “sanctity of life.”
"The management of difference is central to modern statecraft...as a political identity, 'native' was the creation of intellectuals of an empire-in-crisis."
--Mahmood Mamdani (Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity, 2012)
"Colonial powers were the first political fundamentalists of the modern period."
To them, "every colonized group has an original and pure tradition [and] must be made to return to that original condition, and the return must be enforced by law."
- Mahmood Mamdani
1) colonized groups have a pure, original tradition 2) groups must be returned to that state via force of law
"Together, these two propositions constitute the basic platform of every political fundamentalism in the colonial and postcolonial world."