The birth rate among Caucasians (white people, to you) has dropped, and who’s to blame for that?
In order:
Feminists
Abortion
and homosexuality, according to some think-tankers who should probably get out more.
What? No Muslims?
Dear Think-Tankers:
Step away from your population graphs. Open the door. Walk outside. Inhale deeply. You’ll feel a lot better.
Love,
A pro-choice feminist with Muslim and homosexual friends
And thanks, Sis. Sharon, for the link.
Advertisement
So education, birth control, and consideration of financial the implications have absolutely nothing to do with it? I had it all wrong.
I still remember the lessons in grade school about the “population explosion” that was upon us.
Amazing how that didn’t pan out quite like they said.
Population growth, though generally a taboo topic, is not a non-issue. From Paul Ehrlich’s Wikipedia page:
In a 2004 interview, Ehrlich answered questions about the predictions he made in The Population Bomb. He acknowledged that some of what he had written had not “come to pass”, but went on to say that:
When I wrote The Population Bomb in 1968, there were 3.5 billion people. Since then we’ve added another 2.8 billion – many more than the total population (2 billion) when I was born in 1932. If that’s not a population explosion, what is? My basic claims (and those of the many scientific colleagues who reviewed my work) were that population growth was a major problem. Fifty-eight academies of science said that same thing in 1994, as did the world scientists’ warning to humanity in the same year. My view has become depressingly mainline!
Finally, Ehrlich noted that 600 million people were very hungry, billions were under-nourished, and stated that his predictions about disease and climate change were essentially correct.
In retrospect, Ehrlich feels that The Population Bomb was “way too optimistic”. He acknowledges that he underestimated the success of higher-yielding grains, and how that spurred further population growth. But he also points out that there have been perhaps 300 million deaths since the book was published that were caused in large part by malnourishment and undernourishment. He claims that the success of the “green revolution” of the 1970s is already running into the difficulties he and others predicted, while global hunger is now increasing.
So much for “in God we trust”. If it weren’t for those – abortionists, feminists and gays – this country would still be … ours (?).
Minority babies set to become majority in 2010
Year could be tipping point when non-white newborns outnumber white
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35793316/ns/us_news-life
And these clowns put all their energy into wanting a big fricking fence to “keep those people out”. lmao….
Interesting that “those people” are already here. I’m related to them. I bet you are, too. Wahoo! We don’t call it a melting pot any more, do we?
This reminds me of that Camille Paglia piece that Jezebel ran about how people of color are sexbombs that frigid white society should learn from. Ugh.
http://jezebel.com/5575590/legendary-nutjob-gives-horrible-sex-advice
There was a time when I read Camille Paglia (and I don’t wanna sound snotty here; she’s got the intellectual chops going for her) and then it felt like she was…not right. I read something by her recently (can’t remember where, of course, or even the topic) and I really liked it, though I agreed only with 20 percent of it. Do you have writers like that? You may not agree with them, but you like to watch ‘em dance. George Will’s another one, for me. He can say the wrongest stuff in the most lyrical manner.
Yes, I watch/read Camille Paglia because of my personal association. Some of what she writes sounds provocative and dead on, but far from all of it. I admire that she says what she thinks, but I don’t agree with all of it. In the piece mentioned above, one of the things quoted referred to the Rolling Stones and I couldn’t help but smile because they were one of her favorite bands back in the day (funny story about that).
Is there any one famous you don’t know? I’m going to have to start hanging out with you so I can meet bold-face names. Can you tell the story?
I only know a few if you consider 2-3 degrees of separation. My friend was the much younger sister of Camille. When my friend was a toddler, she swiped Camille’s small poster of the Rolling Stones and began carrying it around constantly like a blankie. By the time we were friends (in grade school), she showed it to me and it was a crumpled mess, but still a prized possession. I guess Camille didn’t have the heart to take it back. My friend is very talented. At one time, she lived in the Austin House on Scarborough Drive while working at the Wadsworth. Have you been there or looked at it closely? It has a false front and is about one room deep all the way across on both levels.
That is a freaky house, though I’ve only seen it from the road.
See? You know EVERYbody.
I do not. You are the one with 666 friends on Facebook! I only have 134 facebook friends and I hardly ever say “what’s on my mind” or comment or poke. I’m a really lousy friend on Facebook.
I only know some people, or know some people who know some people, because I’ve been around for so long.
Ah, but can we really “know” someone?
(I vote yes.)
Hmm…are you asking a deep question at this late hour? Can we really “know” someone? Maybe? I’m not even sure if I “know” myself yet. I think I “know” some people, but I’m not 100% sure. I bet some people think they know me and the really don’t know, so it’s bound to work the other way.
I can’t possible say I know my Facebook friends. I have an open enrollment policy. Someone asks, I say yes. That’s not deep.
I don’t know who or what I know right now because my eyes are ready to close. Good night friends who are not my Facebook “friends”.
MWAH! I have no idea why I’m still up. But I am. Go sleep for those of us who aren’t going to.
I hope you eventually went to sleep. For some reason I am still up tonight. I should be more sleepy for being tired. Why don’t those things always go together?
I did finally nod off. I slept the sleep of the dead.
“…people of color are sexbombs that frigid white society should learn from. ”
Wait. Isn’t that on par with “lock up your women because those black men are coveting them, and you know about black men, and Our Women will want them…?”
Yep. Pretty much.
I didn’t interpret it that way.
I feel compelled to point out that the only people who use the word “homosexual” these days are creepy wingnuts; therefore, when I see that word used anywhere other than dated literature or a textbook, etc, I automatically discredit the person saying it.
Thankee.