Schaffer and the hosts were playing a game in which an image or word would appear — like watermelon, Popeyes fried chicken, slavery, etc. — and Schaffer had to say who enjoys it more, white people or Black people. One of the images that appeared was that of a Planned Parenthood clinic.
“Oh, Planned Parenthood,” Schaffer said. “You know what’s weird is that it’s the only place where there’s no planning of parenthood there. It’s a — I believe firmly that if you get an abortion, you should be put to death.” Co-host Jonathan Shelley, of the militantly anti-LGBTQ Stedfast Baptist Church, agreed, saying, “That sounds great.”
Schaffer told the hosts that there is a “real question to be asked about the evilness in a woman’s heart that these women are killing their kids, particularly in the Black community.” However, he said that “one could argue that there’s a good side” to “just keeping that population from, you know, causing more crime and stuff.”
He added that he wasn’t “arguing that myself,” but simply repeating “what people argue.”
Schaffer then jokingly called on the show’s viewers to bomb Planned Parenthood facilities. “And, you know, while I’m not gonna tell everyone to go blow up the Planned Parenthood Center, I’m gonna say it,” he said. “Go blow up the Planned Parenthood Center in a video game, in Minecraft. Don’t do that. I’m kidding.”
Click here for events that happened today (January 17).
1857: Wilhelm Kienzl, fascist composer, existed.
1871: Nicolae Iorga, antisemitic fascist, was sadly born.
1937: With the arrival in Spain of the Fascist volunteers the Spanish Nationalists now felt confident to mount an offensive on the southern provinces of Republican Spain. Three Nationalist columns converged on Málaga; the Army of the South (General Gonzalo) advanced from the west, whilst from Grenada, to the north of the city, advanced Colonel Antonio Muñoz Jiménez. The third column, attacking from the north, consisted of General Mario Roatta’s soldiers.
1941: Vichy forces inflicted a decisive defeat over the Royal Thai Navy.
1942: Walter Karl Ernst August von Reichenau, Generalfeldmarschall, died.
1945: The Axis lost Warsaw and had to abandon Auschwitz because of the Red Army.
2012: Julius Meimberg, Luftwaffe advisor and ace, expired.
I feel like for once the word terrorist would be appropriate here (as opposed to all the times the empire uses it wrongly).
Like even just the implied “joke” of a threat could cause anxiety in people who are using Planned Parenthood, which is probably intentional.
