Tilde Lowengrimm on Nostr: nprofile1q…vtfu0 There certainly is a whole thread of white supremacy obsessed with ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq0m64tke0zv389ykxrvrta2fxerkkcfdezfk7ksm9q63zmz5svnjqsvtfu0 (nprofile…tfu0) There certainly is a whole thread of white supremacy obsessed with this topic. But just because the modern Nazis are having their own weird hallucinations about it doesn't mean that demographics aren't important. I don't think this video is engaging with any of the Nazi rhetoric around this topic, but I'm not a Nazi-watcher, so it's entirely possible that you've seen a dog-whistle I missed?

Reproductive freedom is bidirectional. It's totally reasonable to think about the Republican & evangelical fetish for forced birth, especially starting from a US lens. But reproductive freedom also means the freedom to have kids if you want to. There are many many people in modern highly-educated notionally-affluent societies who want to have kids but aren't able to do so.

One major factor getting in people's way is economics. If it's too expensive to have kids, people who are in control of their reproduction simply won't. People often experience economic precarity during the parts of their lives where it's biologically easiest to have kids. When they feel stable enough to choose to start a family, pregnancy is less reliable and more dangerous, or requires expensive fertility treatments. This is a choice that many notionally-developed societies have made. Putting the entire cost of having and raising kids on individuals/couples/families and localized tax bases rather than providing widespread social support for those who want to have and raise children is a big factor in the inversion of demographic pyramids. And that's all negative coercion.

I think it's reasonable to be concerned about how a society will be able to support more older people with fewer younger people. I think it's reasonable to be saddened by the threat population inversions pose to the preservation of culture, the provision of social services, and the opportunities available for young people. Whether that's the availability of peer groups and concerns about loneliness to unfair economic burdens and challenges to people's opportunity to research, invent, and create rather than being forced into care work.

Population inversions hurt a lot of people, including those who wish they could start a family but are prevented from doing so. I think that societies which plan for the future should consider demographic shifts. But you're absolutely right that increased fertility shouldn't be achieved or even contemplated by forcing people to give birth. However, I think that removing economic barriers and supporting those who already wish they could have kids is entirely reasonable.