How to even begin unraveling this tangled snarl of Fear?
As spring approaches, certain conservative Christian groups* are preparing for winter--Demographic Winter! These groups believe that the "Western Europe" is committing Demographic Suicide by permitting contraception ("abortifacients"), by support of GLTB rights (no support for anyone not capable of creating babies!), and by "undermining" women's natural rights: "Above all, we believe in rights that recognize women's unique gifts of pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding."** They have begun major campaigns to "save" society as they see it. And the society they see is predominantly white.
In the current issue of The Nation (brief video summary), Kathryn Joyce examines the issues put forth by the World Congress of Families in her article, "Missing: The 'Right' Babies" (entire article reprinted via AlterNet). Ms. Joyce adroitly juxtaposes Conservative concern over Europe's negative population growth with Europe's xenophobia--no immigrant birthrate data is factored into a country's Total Fertility Rate, despite the fact that unnaturalized immigrants count for 1/8th of Europe's total current population and between 60% and 80% of the inhabitant population growth. Immigrants to Europe are largely comprised of Africans, Middle Easterners, and Asians; and 25-32 million of these immigrants are Muslim. White Christians, those bastions of Western cultural heritage, are dying out.***
So, to sum up, non-Caucasians do not count; there is no real "assimilation" of culture and the melding of different cultures is a ridiculous idea****, so the "melting pot" idea is dead; being born in Europe isn't enough to make you a European, even if your native tongue is the language of the country in which you were born; people who don't want/can't make babies "naturally" are Bad. But we should still let the foreigners come so that no Citizen has to sully themselves by supporting a family on a Shit Job.
What ever happened to Christians believing Jesus when he said: "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?...Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Or this gem: "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."*****
*Such as the James Dobson's Focus on the Family organization, the Catholic Population Research Institute, the non-denominational Alliance for the Family and Family First Foundation, conservative Think Tank The Howard Center, and current Presidential adviser (and Nixon confidante) Chuck Colson.
**Quote from The Natural Family Manifesto -- co-written by Paul Mero, head of the Mormon Think Tank the Sutherland Institute, and Allan Carlson, an evangelical academic.
***Many European governments are doing their best to stimulate the birth of Natural Nationals: Sweden tried to provoke copulation with their "Fuck for the Future" campaign; a province in Russia made September 12 a "Day of Conception" holiday--anyone who gave birth 9 months later won a car or a fridge; Italy is giving monetary bonuses for each child born and offering a "salary subsidy" to women who agree to be stay-at-home mothers--they were embarrassed, however, when they accidentally handed out checks to immigrant families and had to repossess the funds.
****Even though cultures have melded for millenia as various peoples have been forced by famine, wars, etc., to migrate and encounter new groups/languages/customs. Oh well, what kind of proof is that?
*****Matthew 6:25, 34 and 7:1-5
As spring approaches, certain conservative Christian groups* are preparing for winter--Demographic Winter! These groups believe that the "Western Europe" is committing Demographic Suicide by permitting contraception ("abortifacients"), by support of GLTB rights (no support for anyone not capable of creating babies!), and by "undermining" women's natural rights: "Above all, we believe in rights that recognize women's unique gifts of pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding."** They have begun major campaigns to "save" society as they see it. And the society they see is predominantly white.
In the current issue of The Nation (brief video summary), Kathryn Joyce examines the issues put forth by the World Congress of Families in her article, "Missing: The 'Right' Babies" (entire article reprinted via AlterNet). Ms. Joyce adroitly juxtaposes Conservative concern over Europe's negative population growth with Europe's xenophobia--no immigrant birthrate data is factored into a country's Total Fertility Rate, despite the fact that unnaturalized immigrants count for 1/8th of Europe's total current population and between 60% and 80% of the inhabitant population growth. Immigrants to Europe are largely comprised of Africans, Middle Easterners, and Asians; and 25-32 million of these immigrants are Muslim. White Christians, those bastions of Western cultural heritage, are dying out.***
So, to sum up, non-Caucasians do not count; there is no real "assimilation" of culture and the melding of different cultures is a ridiculous idea****, so the "melting pot" idea is dead; being born in Europe isn't enough to make you a European, even if your native tongue is the language of the country in which you were born; people who don't want/can't make babies "naturally" are Bad. But we should still let the foreigners come so that no Citizen has to sully themselves by supporting a family on a Shit Job.
What ever happened to Christians believing Jesus when he said: "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?...Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Or this gem: "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."*****
*Such as the James Dobson's Focus on the Family organization, the Catholic Population Research Institute, the non-denominational Alliance for the Family and Family First Foundation, conservative Think Tank The Howard Center, and current Presidential adviser (and Nixon confidante) Chuck Colson.
**Quote from The Natural Family Manifesto -- co-written by Paul Mero, head of the Mormon Think Tank the Sutherland Institute, and Allan Carlson, an evangelical academic.
***Many European governments are doing their best to stimulate the birth of Natural Nationals: Sweden tried to provoke copulation with their "Fuck for the Future" campaign; a province in Russia made September 12 a "Day of Conception" holiday--anyone who gave birth 9 months later won a car or a fridge; Italy is giving monetary bonuses for each child born and offering a "salary subsidy" to women who agree to be stay-at-home mothers--they were embarrassed, however, when they accidentally handed out checks to immigrant families and had to repossess the funds.
****Even though cultures have melded for millenia as various peoples have been forced by famine, wars, etc., to migrate and encounter new groups/languages/customs. Oh well, what kind of proof is that?
*****Matthew 6:25, 34 and 7:1-5
2 comments:
were any early christians white enough? seems to me that these western europeans were still worshiping their pagan idols for quite a few centuries while their richer-hued but seemingly less desirable southeastern neighbors were spreading the good word. ah, but i forget that christ is simply a tool for their white supremacy – a religion they hold dearer than any savior.
Sha-ZAM, Jas. I do love thy razored tongue. Thank you for succinctly skewering those who would skewer you:)
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