Kevin Gannon: Tired of major media creating space for right wingers to publish thinly-veiled great replacement shit.

Tired of major media creating space for right wingers to publish thinly-veiled great replacement shit.

Opinion | The ideal number of kids in a family: Four (at a minimum)www.washingtonpost.com More children means more chaos, but also more joy, more chances for growth and more reminders to embrace the best parts of family life and let go of the worst.

The author is a senior fellow at the AEI, which has spent decades successfully lobbying for policies that have made it prohibitively difficult for people to even get by, much less have multiple kids. "We've made it too difficult to have multiple kids" indeed. Real guy-in-a-hotdog-suit stuff here

I think this kind of stuff is written by and for people who think of themselves as "normal Americans" even though they're in the top 10% of wealth. (Such people, absurdly enough, do not consider themselves "wealthy".) For them, family size is mostly about choice of lifestyle.

Which is not to say that you're wrong when you associate this class with Great Replacement nonsense.

Yep. It doesn't occur to them that daycare is well-nigh unaffordable for a large percentage of folks

That’s part of the formula — they don’t want women in the workforce

I've never been a fan of Arrested Development, but I believe they have a meme for that one.

They don't think women should work so they don't worry about daycare cost

My realization is that, as long as I rely on a monthly paycheck, no matter the size of that paycheck, I am "working class." Only if I can take care of my family even if all I do is finger paint all day, am I "upper class." Anyway, WaPo publishes (clearly marked) opposing opinions. This is good.

Those are the actual people Nate Silver keeps so disingenuously referring to as ‘normies.’

The profit at all costs AEI? The no rights for workers AEI? The ones that don't want to regulate all the shit that gives kids cancer, and wants them working in slaughterhouses. Literally the same people saying it's too hard to have kids. Bold.

Also at the Washington Examiner. 🤦‍♀️

The Right Wing griftosphere is an incestuous place. Overlapping sinecures everywhere

Incestuous does imply that something is family-oriented. Just not in a good way.

Who needs an op-ed on how many kids to have? Don’t people have human beings in their lives they can talk to anymore?

Having watched big families become a status symbol is really something after several generations of my Irish Catholic family being shamed for having ... too many children.

A societies / families become richer, children transition from an asset / part of your retirement planning into a liability. Kids are incredibly expensive these days. And so, they become a form of conspicuous consumption...

Yup. Still wild though.

This still definitely only applies to the middle and upper class. If you’re poor and have a bunch of kids, you’re looked at as trash.

Did anyone ask his wife, preferably when she was all by herself

4 kids? The poor woman is almost certainly never alone.

Six

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THIS

As someone who wanted more children than she wound up having, I truly want to launch this discourse into the sun. Sure, I’ll just turn the baby dial on my uterus and boom my kid will get a sibling, easy as that!

Good question. No.

It’s getting really weird! Some things are none of your business, WaPo

What the literal fuck is going on? This focus by the media on getting people to fuck and have babies has gone past creepy.

Way creepy, in addition to blatantly racist and eugenicist

Racist? You don't think they're excluding people of color from these paeans to fecundity, do you? /s

"Quiverfull". No, wait, not those arrows.

Not trying to be disrespectful to you, but it's just that they're racist misogynists. It's not any deeper than that.

No offense take and sometimes it's good to say out loud the answer to a rhetorical question. I guess my lament isn't "what?" so much as "how did this bullshit get pushed back into the mainstream so easily?"

As the eldest of 4 who spent her (and it's always her) childhood heavily parentified (and my father denies this) the author can disrespectfully fuck allllll the way off.

If it's any comfort, my ex did it after his mother died, in the 80s. But he's just one guy.

When the title claims it's "culture" that makes parenting hard and not, say, inequality you know you're in for some BS.

I am extremely dubious that this guy is doing the heavy lifting at home.

I'll bet you dollars to donuts there's at least a part-time nanny in that household

My brother has five kids and I love them all to death, but they have two parents, a babysitter, and four grandparents just to help handle the day-to-day logistics. I don't want to know which kid in that story is making dinner. I want to know which one is Head of HR.

Very safe bet given who and where they are.

He “works” for a right wing policy think tank. The guy’s never done a real day of work in his life.

If he's to be believed in "what they don't do," as a family, he's probably exploiting some form of free labor, like an exchange student. In addition to relying on the oldest kids to do most of the cooking, cleaning, teaching, and babysitting, of course.

Definitely. He's sitting there in silence with his wife, enjoying the sound of his kids playing. He claims she is too. But really?! She's in labor; I think she's got other things on her mind. But he liked the way that sounded. He's clueless.

If by "heavy lifting" you mean "any lifting", yeah, that's what he's not doing.

This is way more that the ideal number of Tim Carney pieces to read in a lifetime

Truth.

*shrugs* the cat and I are doing just fine thank you.

Conservatives know we need families to have more children now that measles, rubella and polio are coming back for some reason.

Kid dead from a preventable disease you did nothing to prevent? Don't worry, that's why you always have spares!

Where else are we going to get organ donors?

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