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 "Commentators across the political spectrum" 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 "we must make this the climate change of the right". This weird craze is purely a right-wing one, why feel the need to equate "both sides" on every issues?
What I take from the article is that birth rate is a statistic with many ideas tied to it.
It almost feels like it is trying to "They Live!" me into believing everything about it is "REPRODUCE" propaganda.
You can't do that using "OBEY" 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.
It reminds me of that scene of "Starship Troopers" in which an official appears and explains how to kill an insect from Klandatu by shooting at the heart, not the leg.
Does it really matter? I mean, for my silly stupid life. I don'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.
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!
You know what? Maybe I will fight for the insects from Klandatu instead. It seems that those guys need a help.
What about the low birth rates? Well, the article isn'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 "the people", 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's not for nothing that people worry.
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The people shouting about low birth rates don't actually care about low birth rates.
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.
IF there's a low birth rate crisis leading to a lack of workers THEN you can justify child labor
IF there's a low birth rate crisis it's because of women and THEN you can justify restricting women's rights
IF there's a low birth rate crisis "we all know what that means" THEN you can talk about replacement theory without talking about it
IF there's a low birth rate crisis THEN you can propose all manner of ludicrous things that are otherwise socially unacceptable
IF there's a low birth rate crisis THEN you can distract people from the other shit you're doing
The easiest way to prove that the people shouting about a low birth rate crisis don't actually care about birth rates is to compile a list of their solutions to the "crisis".
Are the solutions the subsidizing of childcare and healthcare or lower taxes?
Are the solutions supporting young families or punishing and demonizing women who choose not to be mothers?
The only thing the people shouting about low birth rates care about is money.
That's it. That's all.
Money.
"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're angry and panicking please vote for this guy over here."
There is indeed some plain old bigotry and sexism at the margins but on the whole it's about money.