1/Everyone's talking about this Ross Douthat thread, but there's an important point here that's being overlooked, which could change this whole discussion.https://twitter.com/DouthatNYT/status/936050501849927682 …
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2/The nativist natalists (say that 10 times fast!!) like
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3/The U.S. has had a huge fertility drop over the last decade. But who's having less kids? Hispanic Americans.https://www.cnbc.com/2015/04/27/baby-bust-millenials-birth-rate-drop-may-signal-historic-shift.html …
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4/You've seen the headline numbers. American fertility has plummeted. Here's a graph of fertility by race. You can see that almost all the drop is Hispanic women having fewer kids.pic.twitter.com/1ZWThNAVw0
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5/Now, let's talk about pro-natalist policies. Paying people to have more kids will naturally be a bigger deal for poor parents than rich ones. That disproportionately means black and Hispanic parents.
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@DouthatNYT and@lymanstoneky should realize that the nativists do not necessarily *want* Hispanic and black people to have more kids.https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/steve-king-defends-somebody-else-s-babies-remarks-n732741 …4 replies 5 retweets 43 likesShow this thread -
7/Hence, it seems likely that nativists will respond favorably to pro-natalist appeals unless the natalist proposals can somehow be aimed specifically at white people.
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8/Therefore, this whole discussion and brouhaha is probably a bit silly. (end)
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Replying to @Noahpinion
This connects to my cold-light-of-morning caveat that some ethno-conservatives would be fine with the US just turning into Japan.
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You act like it's some kind of math proof where you've gotten to "Your argument implies that you prefer whites, therefore racist, therefore you lose" but unlike you we don't care b/c we don't depend on the good graces of NYT Try making an argument for US of Brazil if you dare.
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