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America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world: ‘There are going to be countries of old people starving to death’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 10 months ago by mpk@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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The highlight for me is coming up with some weird pseudoscience justification for why it’s okay to hit your kids.

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[-] maol@awful.systems 13 points 10 months ago

Everyone's least favourite rationalist couple

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 13 points 10 months ago

Valley Forge, PA

Yep, checks out.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 10 months ago

hmm I don't actually know the context here, mind sharing?

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

York and the surrounding counties are currently very much a culture war battleground. There’s a bunch of school board initiated censorship, bomb threats against libraries (and then subsequent defunding of those unless they promise not to do anything that could cause offense to domestic terrorists), that sort of thing. (Edit: forgot to mention the hate tracker, some more stuff I didn’t think I wanted to know about my own neighbors)

That crap is done by people and I imagine these folks are among those doing it, and so are their friends and neighbors.

[-] Kata1yst@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

City very much in the heart of Pennsyl-Tucky

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[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 12 points 10 months ago

Id rather starve than enslave children

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 10 months ago

Ah these are the dudes with the unbelievably cringe Reddit dating history.

[-] saucerwizard@awful.systems 11 points 10 months ago

I don’t know where to start.

[-] fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

There are already way, way too many people on the planet.

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[-] maol@awful.systems 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I saw this unprompted in my social media feed and now so must you: these two think it's racist to criticise them for hitting their kids, because black people hit their kids. Apparently. Can you genetically select for shamelessness? How about vicious stupidity?

[-] jax@awful.systems 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The couple both said they found the backlash they faced on social media to be racist since, they argued, minorities often hit their children without the same backlash.

"We are kind of shocked by the racism threaded throughout this recent controversy. It is pretty well-documented that African Americans and other minority groups practice corporal punishment much more than other groups," Simone Collins said via email, linking to a CNN article published in 2011.

Malcolm Collins said it was "uniquely offensive" to him considering "the majority of Americans practice some form of corporal punishment, as you can see from the statistics with specifically that being the minority groups of Americans. So yeah, I think it's an arguably racist position."

this is the stupidest fucking thing I've read all year

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