Natal conference, to be held in Austin in December, promoted on far-right podcast circuit and set to host self-described eugenicists

A high-end hotel in the liberal Texan enclave of Austin is playing host to a conference whose theme is boosting global birth rates, but which will in fact feature racist and eugenicist internet personalities and far-right media figures.

The Natal conference – whose website warns that “by the end of the century, nearly every country on earth will have a shrinking population, and economic systems dependent on reliable growth will collapse” – is scheduled to be held on 1 December at the Line Hotel.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    Why does there have to be a sacrifice? Why can’t people just be encouraged to use contraception?

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      1 year ago

      Because the pope says I can’t wear a little rubber thingie on my old chap.

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      1 year ago

      How do you encourage marginalized people who have been historically discouraged from breeding due to eugenics reasons to voluntarily stop breeding because the people in power just lowkey want them to?

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      Because the people causing the collapse of the planet are not the same ones you expect to stop reproducing (literally eugenics btw)

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          You clearly stated it - the ones you think need encouragement to use contraception, and lets not pretend you mean rich people or even just the “middle class” in wealthy countries who are having fewer and fewer children to the point where they fear population collapse.

          It’s also interesting that you’ve responded here, but not to the comment with the links proving you wrong.

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        You put a lot of words into someone’s mouth and then had an argument with yourself. That was funny but I doubt that was your intent. Maybe try not constructing so many straw men?