Originally Posted by TakuanSoho

In 1926, in what she called "one of the weirdest experiences I had in lecturing," Sanger even gave a lecture on birth control to the women's auxiliary of the Ku Klux Klan in Silver Lake, New Jersey, a group she found so ignorant she had to use only "the most elementary terms, as though I were trying to make children understand."[5] Sanger's talk was well-received by the women's auxiliary of the Ku Klux Klan and as a result "a dozen invitations to similar groups were proffered."[5] In September 1930, she received at home the Nazi anthropologist Eugen Fischer.[6][7]

And she later had "issues" with what the Nazis were doing, but never publicly.

In the end there is nothing one can point to and say "See, she is a racist", but at the same time she should have understood what she was saying was naturally playing into the hands of hardcore racists, and when it was abused, she never got the point that such an idea would ALWAYS be abused.

I put her down as an idealist who never lets nasty reality get in the way of her ideals. Was she racist, certainly, but it was the northern genteel version, not the overt southern version, which as I pointed out before, is generally far more dangerous and damaging.