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by phkahler 1934 days ago
>> so when someone mentions a comment like that they specifically mean poor and / or brown people.

>> To get 'natural' population reduction, we need a worldwide policy of wealth, health care, and sexual education. For the last point, it's important to note that it requires deprogramming. To be very blunt, the Catholic Church has brainwashed generations to reproduce as much as they can. That damage has to be undone.

So I'm a racist for bringing up population as an issue, but you get to point to policy solutions and blaming religion?

Thanks.

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> I'm a racist for bringing up population as an issue, but you get to point to policy solutions and blaming religion?

I don't think anyone reasonably accused you of racism.

The reality of demographics mean population control amounts to rich, predominantly white nations telling poor, predominantly brown nations to have fewer kids. The problem isn't race per se. It's the racial discrepancy making most solutions politically untenable.

Yes, absolutely.

Anyone that thinks that "population control" is a good idea is a eugenicist inviting genocide. You would have to be racist to suggest it without seeing it as violent and evil.

There's no wiggle-room here. You made a Hitler-tier suggestion on how we deal with human beings living on this Earth. Reflect upon what you said a little and reconsider how you view the third world.