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October 20, 2005
US: Columnist sees Demographic Threat... From Christians!
The Duggar Family has been in the news. It turns out Ms. Duggar has recently had her 16th child, and the event somehow merited national news. This itself betrays dramatic cultural amnesia (one of my great-grandmothers had 19 children, my maternal grandmother, 11), as clueless commentators watch in horror this "freakishly large brood." At first sight, the San Francisco Chronicle article I'm about to quote would appear to be the most clueless commentary of all, but in the present political climate, I'm glad the columnist grasped part of the truth. (More on this latter.) Here is the article: God Does Not Want 16 Kids
Who are you to judge? Who are you to say that the more than slightly creepy 39-year-old woman from Arkansas who just gave birth to her 16th child yes that's right 16 kids and try not to cringe in phantom vaginal pain when you say it, who are you to say Michelle Duggar is not more than a little unhinged and sad and lost?[...]Perhaps the point is this: Why does this sort of bizarre hyperbreeding only seem to afflict antiseptic megareligious families from the Midwest? In other words -- assuming Michelle and Jim Bob and their massive brood of cookie-cutter Christian kidbots will all be, as the charming photo suggests, never allowed near a decent pair of designer jeans or a tolerable haircut from a recent decade, and assuming that they will all be tragically encoded with the values of the homophobic asexual Christian right -- where are the forces that shall help neutralize their effect on the culture? Where is the counterbalance, to offset the damage?
Where is, in other words, the funky tattooed intellectual poetess who, along with her genius anarchist husband, is popping out 16 funky progressive intellectually curious fashion-forward pagan offspring to answer the Duggar's squad of uber-white future Wal-Mart shoppers? Where is the liberal, spiritualized, pro-sex flip side? Verily I say unto thee, it ain't lookin' good.
Perhaps this the scariest aspect of our squishy birthin' tale: Maybe the scales are tipping to the neoconservative, homogenous right in our culture simply because they tend not to give much of a damn for the ramifications of wanton breeding and environmental destruction and pious sanctimony, whereas those on the left actually seem to give a whit for the health of the planet and the dire effects of overpopulation. Is that an oversimplification?[...]
I won't go over Mr. Morford's many errors (there is no point in making this entry near-encyclopedic), I will instead praise him for a realization that, I'm sure, must have costed him serious emotional pain: I'm just glad he has realized relative birth rates matter politically. I'm just glad it may be dawning on him the future does not belong to the child-bashers, but to the child-makers. I'm just glad he has glanced at the truth.
I will now lay down and wait patiently for Mr. Morford to shift target, and look at what must be for him even more disturbing: the vastly higher Muslim birthrate accross the World, especially in Europe. I will let him ponder that disturbing truth. I will lay down, pick a book, and wait patiently until he sees this truth....
I ask you now, dear readers: will I have to wait long?
Posted by Ruy Diaz at October 20, 2005 1:50 PM
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