By Erin Gloria Ryan
The data in question shows that more non-white babies were born last year, which means calling non-white babies "minorities" is becoming increasingly stupider, and also that the Duggars are losing. Part of the baby demographic shift was due to a higher birth rate among Hispanics and the fact that the crappy economic picture prompted many white families to forego baby having. Analysts project that by the end of this century, non-white Americans will outnumber white Americans, a thought that strikes fear into octogenarian conservative xenophobes who will be dead long before "their" country is "taken away" from them by the Mexicans.
Anyway, the sort of person who uses the phrase "the white race" non-ironically is pretty upset with this development, another bit of evidence, in their mind, that minority women are unstoppable breeding machines with out of control sexuality and dangerous fecundity that must be kept out of America at all costs.
Readers of Fox Nation, that reliable bastion of whackadoodlery, rated the story of the nonwhite birth rate surpassing the white birth rate as "Scary." And commenters are frightened, but resigned. One said, "It was bound to happen..with anchor babies and pay raises for more chillrin..." Others, who clearly still don't understand the concept of "structural racism" having nothing to do with sheer numbers and everything to do with power, wondered if they'd get special consideration for entering "government school" now. You know, like all those Mexican children of undocumented farm workers who are applying for admission to Harvard, unseating deserving white applicants. Another said, "Not hard to believe. Los Angeles in the 1970's was overwhelmingly white. Now it's overwhelmingly latino. The latinos took over. Just look at the school demographics. That pretty much tells the story. This country is slowly being returned to Mexico with the help of politicians." Hard to argue with that!
By Adam Peck
It marked an important milestone, indicative of a changing United States that has long been considered the world’s melting pot. Or, if you’re the conservative, Phyllis Schlafly-backed Eagle Forum, it’s a clarion call that America is in grave danger of being overrun by uneducated, un-American brown people:
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Instead, the USA is being transformed by immigrants who do not share those values, and who have high rates of illiteracy, illegitimacy, and gang crime, and they will vote Democrat when the Democrats promise them more food stamps.
FACT: Red States use the most welfare and food stamps.
FACT: a minority baby cries & poops just like a white baby.
FACT: Minorities vote Democrat because the GOP are racists and treats them like they're not people.
Exactly, why would I as a minority want to vote for a politicial party that sees me as: illiterate, less educated, not American (even though I AM) and worst of all less human than they are.
Oh--I thught all babies were BORN with American values--except, of course, those that aren't like Phyllis.
And we stole this land so...I guess American values are steal what you can and call it yours. A shame to see THAT go!
For more on conservative racism, see White Privilege Will End Soon and Conservatives Seek Return to 1957.
Whats to fear? Idiots and ignorance are not sole white traits. We have them in every tribe and race as well, so, for whites to think that they have the edge on stupidity and voting against your own communitys better interests can be found in native, African American, Asian and Latino groups. After all, there are some Indians that are okay with Indian mascots?
ReplyDelete@The above Anonymous:
ReplyDeleteThis site is not an anti-racist site. It's a Marxist site, and Marxism today means holding white people to a different, impossible standard while ignoring racism among non-whites (like that nice "Stay Brown" sign sported by one of the demonstrators in the Decolonize Oakland May Day rally).
If you're referring to my blog, Anonymous #2, you're wrong. In any case, you're even more wrong about the definition of Marxism.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing how stupid and ignorant people have become about the concepts of socialism and Marxism. Most conservatives use these words without having a clue what they really mean.