The article quoted below is written by a literal nobody, Jason Wilson, who has been on Twitter for over 15 years, and has fewer than 35,000 followers.
It is sort of nasty to mock a failed journalist who has spent his entire adult life failing to build a career while I’m working for Andrew Anglin, the most famous (and most censored) living journalist. But everyone on this antifa-linked “hate watch” beat is an absolute loser scraping the bottom of the barrel, and it’s clear that their personal bitterness plays a major role in their writing.
This is a job where your only purpose is to insult and try to tear down people who are successful in various ways, and zero successful people are involved in this line of work.
The guy he is attacking here, and calling “far-right,” Kevin Dolan, is actually connected to neocons, and is a former employee of Booz Allen Hamilton, the military/intelligence contractor that Edward Snowden worked for.
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.
Natal’s website claim the conference has “has no political or ideological goal other than a world in which our children can have grandchildren”, but the Guardian can reveal its organizer Kevin Dolan has been promoting the event on the far-right podcast circuit, and has explicitly linked the conference’s “pro-natalist” orientation to eugenics.
Dolan was at one time a social media influencer connected to the far-right Mormon “Deznat” or “Deseret nationalist” subculture and has himself linked the conference’s theme with eugenics in interviews.
On 13 June, Dolan was a guest on the Jolly Heretic podcast, hosted by Edward Dutton, an Englishman who left an academic position in Finland after his university found that a work he co-authored with self-described “scientific racist” Richard Lynn plagiarized a student’s dissertation. Dutton once served as editor of the eugenicist journal Mankind Quarterly and is listed as a Natal speaker.
I don’t know Dutton’s story, but plagiarism is something that is actually offensive and should destroy a person’s good name. I think it’s a “social sin” of the same sort that the left now claims “racism” is. But most of the leaders of the left – including, prolifically, Joe Biden – have been caught doing plagiarism.
In his conversation with Dutton, Dolan said: “I think that the pro-natalist and the eugenic positions are very much not in opposition, they’re very much aligned.”
Broadly, eugenics is a group of beliefs and practices aimed at improving the genetic quality of a human population. It became the basis of a popular movement from the late 19th century, and led to governments around the world adopting policies such as forced sterilization of disabled and mentally ill people. The field was discredited after the second world war due to its association with racial policies in Nazi Germany, and many critics have attacked it as a pseudoscience.
It’s not “discredited.” That doesn’t even make sense as a basic claim.
We still breed dogs, do we not? And we know that purebred dogs are much better than mutts, as a general matter.
What is the difference?
Saying eugenics is discredited because Hitler believed it is like saying water is discredited because Hitler drank water. (That’s maybe an exaggeration, because their claim is that Hitler turned Jews into furniture and cleaning products in part because he believed in eugenics, but the point is the same – a “bad person” believing something doesn’t make that thing untrue. The better analogy: I think Ted Cruz is one of the worst people on earth, but I agree with his statements on illegal immigration. I’m not pro-illegal immigration because Ted Cruz is a scumbag trying to destroy America.)
Anyway – this guy is not even promoting eugenics, he simply mentioned it on a podcast.
Heidi Beirich is the one who is discredited – she has promoted endless hoaxes, and she is morbidly obese.
Who is going to take any advice from a person who can’t even control what they shove into their mouth? Capacity to regulate food intake is surely a prerequisite for being able to do anything else.
Heidi Beirich, the co-founder of the Global Project on Hate and Extremism, said the meeting will cement links between the far right and influential rightwing opinion-makers. “It’s not surprising to see far-right folks, eugenicist types and white nationalists joining forces at a conference like this. They have become bedfellows,” she said.
She added: “The far right has long fretted about a demographic winter, and though they don’t necessarily say it openly, what they are referring to most often is a fall in white birthrates.”
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Other speakers at Natal explicitly describe themselves as eugenicists, and some happily conflate genetic traits and genetic fitness with race. They include Jonathan Anomaly, whose 2018 paper Defending Eugenics called for a “non-coercive” or “liberal eugenics” to “increase the prevalence of traits that promote individual and social welfare”. That paper led Australian academics to publish an open letter of protest to the journal that published the paper.
In this context, we are just simply talking about the fact that middle class/rich/intelligent people are not breeding at rates anywhere near what they should be doing, while the poor are breeding wildly.
The core problem is feminism, which has a much higher impact on wealthier/better educated populations. I don’t even think these people will say that, but that is the core matter at hand.
By 2100, every country on earth will have a shrinking population
Live births in Italy & South Korea will have collapsed by 96%, with the rest of the developed world close behind
So much will be lost, unless we act nowhttps://t.co/7UUpBK5vqF pic.twitter.com/omshRZI48x
— Natal Conference (@natalismorg) May 15, 2023
As a rule, whites and Asians are more intelligent and more competent than other groups. However:
- I don’t think poor whites need to be breeding as much as they are, and
- I think blacks or any other race would prefer if their richer/more intelligent populations were breeding more and their poorer/dumber populations were breeding less.
This is just common sense, is it not?
Still: from what I’ve seen of these “natalists,” they are not saying that even. They are just talking about the birthrate in general.
Conversely, people like Heidi Beirich, or the faceless and irrelevant antifa author of this Guardian article, are against all breeding (except for poor blacks).
The strict biological window of fertility is much larger for men than women
but for most men the *practical* window – in which they’ll be able to find an attractive woman of childbearing age who is interested in starting a family with them – is only five or ten years longer https://t.co/GjylPsrJp1
— Natal Conference (@natalismorg) August 30, 2023
Elon Musk has been talking about the birthrate in recent years, and he’s not ever said anything about race (he’s still afraid of that topic).
The other view is that the birthrate isn’t really something that matters in developed countries, because automation is going to take so many jobs, so the bigger issue is slowing the birthrate of Africans.