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America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world: ‘There are going to be countries of old people starving to death’ (www.theguardian.com)

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The highlight for me is coming up with some weird pseudoscience justification for why it’s okay to hit your kids.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Everyone's least favourite rationalist couple

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Valley Forge, PA

Yep, checks out.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Ah these are the dudes with the unbelievably cringe Reddit dating history.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Id rather starve than enslave children

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

I don’t know where to start.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

All I have to do is read the kids names and, poof, I can tell they are both idiots and narcissists.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I saw this unprompted in my social media feed and now so must you: these two think it's racist to criticise them for hitting their kids, because black people hit their kids. Apparently. Can you genetically select for shamelessness? How about vicious stupidity?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The couple both said they found the backlash they faced on social media to be racist since, they argued, minorities often hit their children without the same backlash.

"We are kind of shocked by the racism threaded throughout this recent controversy. It is pretty well-documented that African Americans and other minority groups practice corporal punishment much more than other groups," Simone Collins said via email, linking to a CNN article published in 2011.

Malcolm Collins said it was "uniquely offensive" to him considering "the majority of Americans practice some form of corporal punishment, as you can see from the statistics with specifically that being the minority groups of Americans. So yeah, I think it's an arguably racist position."

this is the stupidest fucking thing I've read all year

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