betterbemeta:fail-boat:run-up-the-sail:derinthemadscientist:Why is this even a problem? If you need
betterbemeta:fail-boat:run-up-the-sail:derinthemadscientist:Why is this even a problem? If you need more citizens, take in more immigrants or refugees. It’s not like America has a shortage of either wanting to come in. If you can’t make your own citizens, imported is fine.How Millenials are killing the baby industry“If you can’t make your own citizens, imported is fine.”I don’t mean to kill the joke, because that really is funny, but I also want everyone to know that the panic behind birth decline in the USA is a dog whistle white nationalist one. Part of the game plan for Christian fundamentalists and white nationalists is to outpopulate minorities of color, which leads right into their specific kind of sexism where they freak out that white women have alternatives to marrying straight white men and devoting themselves full-time to popping out kids. And their racism is partially related to trying to make the consequences for black and other non-white mothers steep, deter that demographic from growing.Historical Nazis had “Kinder, Küche, Kirche”, and modern white supremacists have things like quiverfull. They want to take planned parenthood offline, and they appeal to white men by promising a reproductive family or at least access to sex with white women should their ideology win out.But the unbridled greed of capitalist markets has kind of unintentionally screwed that interest. The economy hasn’t recovered, and that might serve racists by making things doubly hard for PoC who don’t own wealth, but the amount of wealth that middle-class and working-class white citizens own is shrinking. Many ‘innovations’ aren’t doing anything to promote stability and confidence spending money but instead profiteer off insecurity and inability to invest in services + goods long-term. So even white people aren’t having babies. The panic of an overt racist at that fact might be really profound but because so much of our society is built to assume white households perpetuating wealth is the center of our way of life, there’s also a background, low level anxiety that is felt by a wider public. -- source link