Right-Wing Groups Use Decline of White Birthrates to Stoke Fear of Homosexuality, Feminism and Abort

[Joanne98]

By Bill Berkowitz, AlterNet
Posted on June 30, 2010, Printed on June 30, 2010
http://www.alternet.org/story/147352/

If you’ve been following the debate over population growth, you’re probably familiar with the argument that it is economically unfeasible for the earth to sustain an unlimited population. You might subscribe to that argument, or you might believe that it isn’t so much a problem of population growth but rather of the inequitable worldwide distribution of resources. Or you might see the two as interrelated.

In recent years, a new wrinkle has been introduced into the debate; a concept called “demographic winter.”

Unlike the term “nuclear winter,” “demographic winter” is relatively new and lesser known. Demographer Philip Longman, a researcher at the New America Foundation, says, "The ongoing global decline in human birthrates is the single most powerful force affecting the fate of nations and the future of society in the 21st century."

Declining birth rates -- and aging populations -- is a phenomenon that is of concern to countries around the globe. Conservatives have taken to using “demographic winter” as a catchphrase for turning the discussion into another battle in the culture war. For many on the Right, demographic winter describes a future of economic catastrophes, the decline of Western Civilization, and the destruction of the “natural” family. Embedded within the concept is an argument for a return to adherence to “natural law,” which one conservative writer pointed out “reflects the will of Him whom the Founders referred to obliquely in the Declaration of Independence as ‘Nature’s God.’”

For many conservatives, demographic winter -- or “birth dearth” as it is sometimes called -- is the ultimate culture war battle, rooted in the rise of feminism, legalized abortion, the acceptance of homosexuality, illegal immigration, and the growth of minority populations. All of this is supposedly the result of a multi-decade campaign by liberals to undermine “natural law” and the “natural” family.

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[GodlessBiker]

1. In 5,000 years who knows and who cares what humans will look like. Do we care...

what they looked like 5,000 years ago?

[FiveGoodMen]

5. Exactly!

[whyverne]

2. I propose state run nurseries, white only.

Idea stolen from Gunter Grass, "Headbirths: Or the Germans Are Dying Out".
Written 20 years ago.

[yurbud]

4. for Beck, Limbaugh, and O'Reilly fans? OK

that way they won't be able to hurt themselves or others.

[yurbud]

3. ''them gays R outbirthing us!''

[bergie321]

6. Maybe

Stop your idiotic economic policies and we can afford more children? Just a thought...