There’s a thin line between the ‘pro-natalist’ movement and the ‘great replacement theory’
Dismissing the movement as quirky people with quirky ideas risks glossing over some very regressive thinking
While pro-natalists don’t exactly go around saying that they only want white people to be born, there is a very thin line between their concern about birth rates in the developed world and the racist and antisemitic “ ”, which posits that white Americans and Europeans are being “replaced” by non-white immigrants. It goes without saying that the global population is currentlyit is only likely to start decreasing in 2100, by which point there will be 10.9 billion people on Earth.
Dismissing those like the Collinses as quirky people with quirky ideas risks glossing over some very regressive thinking. Indeed, much of the media coverage of pro-natalism is reminiscent of the way in which white supremacists like Richard Spencer were treated asPro-natalism doesn’t just overlap with racism, but also misogyny. When you start to see women as breeding machines whose job it is to repopulate the Earth, you can justify some very dystopian policies.
Indeed, you only need to look at Hungary to see the end point. Far-right Viktor Orbán is obsessed with getting Hungarian woman to breed and has devoted a huge amount of
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