• DiatomeceousGirth@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The article is weak and just a bunch of bullets points without much info. But that website is pretty weird. The about page is full of concern about demographic changes, dog whistles about only poor people procreating, and immigration being concerning. Some decent points about healthcare privatization though. Pretty sus overall.

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      1 year ago

      I seen this style on a few other sites, and where did you see those dog whistles becuase from the text it talks about how people can’t afford kids and thats a problem?

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        I’m going to use “=” as a shorthand that means what the statements are dog whistling. These are statements from their about page

        Declining fertility rates more prominently among the affluent = the poor shouldn’t be reproducing, and we should encourage only rich babies (this one sounds alot like those silicon valley pronatalists). Also “affluent” is usually code for white.

        Forced migration and places being “unable to take care of their own” = anti-immigrant, isolationism.

        Demographic changes = tied closely to the last one, but typically also related to domestic racism and almost always bigoted against nonwhite people. Never seen someone worry about demographic changes without a racial element.

        NIMBY regulations = deregulate housing market and allow developers to build whatever. Given all the other things and the fact they don’t mention affordability makes me think they just want to make developers rich.

        The interesting thing here is they mention austerity and privatization a couple times. These are typically left wing critiques. So honestly it’s pretty confused. It’s possible it’s left wing trying to propagandize to the right. Could be vise versa. Seeing population decline (especially since it’s mostly majority white nations that have declining populations) as a bad thing gives me fascist impressions.