There Are Many Threats to Humanity. A Low Birth Rate Isn't One of Them

The people shouting about low birth rates don&#x27;t actually care about low birth rates.<p>They are using concern about low birth rates to get people riled up and trojan horse bigotry into a mainstream message to gain a base of people who will support their efforts to enforce their values on others.<p>IF there&#x27;s a low birth rate crisis leading to a lack of workers THEN you can justify child labor<p>IF there&#x27;s a low birth rate crisis it&#x27;s because of women and THEN you can justify restricting women&#x27;s rights<p>IF there&#x27;s a low birth rate crisis &quot;we all know what that means&quot; THEN you can talk about replacement theory without talking about it<p>IF there&#x27;s a low birth rate crisis THEN you can propose all manner of ludicrous things that are otherwise socially unacceptable<p>IF there&#x27;s a low birth rate crisis THEN you can distract people from the other shit you&#x27;re doing<p>The easiest way to prove that the people shouting about a low birth rate crisis don&#x27;t actually care about birth rates is to compile a list of their solutions to the &quot;crisis&quot;.<p>Are the solutions the subsidizing of childcare and healthcare or lower taxes?<p>Are the solutions supporting young families or punishing and demonizing women who choose not to be mothers?<p>The only thing the people shouting about low birth rates care about is money.<p>That&#x27;s it. That&#x27;s all.<p>Money.<p>&quot;Civilization is going to collapse unless you elect someone who will fix the low birthrate crisis and the best solution is eliminating the capital gains tax so while you&#x27;re angry and panicking please vote for this guy over here.&quot;<p>There is indeed some plain old bigotry and sexism at the margins but on the whole it&#x27;s about money.

Correct for humanity as a whole, but incorrect for subpopulations. E.g. South Koreans probably want to continue to exist, and this is not equivalent to the landmass of South Korea being populated.

Article starts with &quot;Commentators across the political spectrum&quot; then cites many well known far-right pundits and one liberal writer you never heard of. Why this weird bothsideism? I heard one guy on the right say &quot;we must make this the climate change of the right&quot;. This weird craze is purely a right-wing one, why feel the need to equate &quot;both sides&quot; on every issues?

What I take from the article is that birth rate is a statistic with many ideas tied to it.<p>It almost feels like it is trying to &quot;They Live!&quot; me into believing everything about it is &quot;REPRODUCE&quot; propaganda.<p>You can&#x27;t do that using &quot;OBEY&quot; propaganda though, otherwise it becomes satirical. What I mean by that is that the article provides guidelines on what to focus on when discussing these things in typical conversations.<p>It reminds me of that scene of &quot;Starship Troopers&quot; in which an official appears and explains how to kill an insect from Klandatu by shooting at the heart, not the leg.<p>Does it really matter? I mean, for my silly stupid life. I don&#x27;t care about birth rates. Maybe I care about the non statistical or political part. Most people would like to have a family, right? You media guys know that some people see things from a personal perspective, some from a partisan perspective and so on.<p>Well, I am the computer kid grown up. I am supposed to see things like a little tiny robot. To care about the big statistics things, and to care about the end of the world. Sounds like the article partially targets me!<p>You know what? Maybe I will fight for the insects from Klandatu instead. It seems that those guys need a help.<p>What about the low birth rates? Well, the article isn&#x27;t about birth rates. Why should I talk about them?

humanity is almost certainly immune to extinction, there are too many of us, spread out over the whole globe for anything less than a planet killing asteroid to take us all out.Even the most horribly infectious and deadly diseases are never 100% fatal to those who get it. a low birth rate in any given culture is definitly a threat to that culture, and almost all cultures have a deep identity with they bieng &quot;the people&quot;, so it is easy to understand how a lot of cultural groups are feeling threatend, and certainly genocide is real.We have very clear evidence of missing y chromosone groups, and the fact of all previous hominid species going extinct so it&#x27;s not for nothing that people worry.