Mark Sumner asks why a bunch of billionaries and Silicon Valley types including Elon Musk are coming out as pronatalists who want to ring alarm bells about declining birthrates.

In my view, the answer to the question is that these folks want in any way they can to reverse the movement for women's rights of the past century. Their primary objective is to blame women – women's liberation – for declining birthrates.

#pronatalism #DemographicWinter #WomensRights

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/29/2243287/-Why-do-these-people-think-having-a-bunch-of-babies-will-save-the-world

Jonathan V. Last writes,

"I have written a lot about demographics and natalism. Here is an uncomfortable fact: Do you know who else is really into natalism? Racists and weirdos."

And this is EXACTLY why I tend to turn a deaf ear to the dire warnngs of people like Jonathan V. Last, a self-professed right-wing Catholic, about "demographic winter," with their implied chastisement of (white) women for not having babies.

#demographics #DemographicWinter #ProNatalism

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/meet-the-weirdos-making-pronatalism