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I'll say it again.
If you want action to minimize inequalities in child care, sex-based discrimination (not gender), climate change, guns, and any other long-term issues facing society, there's one solution.
Millennials and Gen Zs need to refuse to have kids until they're fixed.
If you want action to minimize inequalities in child care, sex-based discrimination (not gender), climate change, guns, and any other long-term issues facing society, there's one solution.
Millennials and Gen Zs need to refuse to have kids until they're fixed.
The one thing that conservatives fear more than anything is that white Americans are "losing" in the share of births domestically.
We can use that to our advantage.
We can use that to our advantage.
Have an asswipe of a conservative uncle who keeps asking when you're going to get married and have kids?
Outline your requirements for the minimum living standards you're willing to bring kids into.
Outline your requirements for the minimum living standards you're willing to bring kids into.
Let them know they're not just hurting "those other people" - make it clear that they're killing off their own genes through their support of politicians who are perpetuating inequality....
Keep in mind that this is not a statement that implies mixed-race children are less "valuable" in any way, especially genetically: if anything, their genetic stock has less inbreeding, so there's a benefit - at minimum, incidence of many heritable recessive conditions will drop.
I'm not suggesting anyone weaponizes race.
I am saying if someone can't be taught tolerance and acceptance, it should be acceptable to wield their own fear and prejudice against their willingness to harm others.
I am saying if someone can't be taught tolerance and acceptance, it should be acceptable to wield their own fear and prejudice against their willingness to harm others.
Republicans can't complain - their voter targeting and messaging has relied primarily on fear and leveraging the dark triad for decades.
But this isn't just hyperbolic fearmongering - it's an clear statement of consequences to ignoring reasonable demands for profit..
But this isn't just hyperbolic fearmongering - it's an clear statement of consequences to ignoring reasonable demands for profit..
Unfortunately, this is again a situation where there's more leverage for white people than persons of color, at least within a family... but it's also one where women, as the more "limited resource," can have more power than men.
That makes it our responsibility, ladies.
That makes it our responsibility, ladies.
So. If the kids involved with @AMarch4OurLives, climate climate activists, etc., really want to see change, get your contemporaries to make another pledge:
"I will not have any children until you give them a safe, healthy world to live in."
"I will not have any children until you give them a safe, healthy world to live in."
Chances are you have 10 years before it's even something you could consider being able to afford anyway, but in that 10 years, as the Mitch McConnells of the world die off, making your expectations clear may scare some into accomplishing quite a bit.
