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Chris Jesu Lee's avatar

Enjoyed reading this! Regarding the Western obsession with East Asian birth rates, I remember reading a Slate piece from the early 2010s by Josh Levin that pointed the double standard in how the West liked to view falling European birth rates as the fault of capitalism (e.g. youth unemployment, high housing costs) while falling East Asian birth rates as sexual defectiveness, especially in the men. It was effective copium for many Americans: 'Whew, at least we're going to avoid that fate because we're not commies like the Euros and we're not dickless nerds like the Asians.'

So it's been pretty funny watching that panic now take hold in America, with people blaming stuff like Gen Z Boss and a Mini for American youth sexlessness.

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Contarini's avatar

Replacement is not a theory. It is the government policy of importing demographically significant numbers of people, who are then made citizens with voting rights, and who can be relied upon to vote to the left of legacy populations, to effect political change. This was and remains the policy of, among others, both the British Labour Party and the American Democratic Party, with the acquiescence of the traditional center-right parties. Despite occasional public denials, the policy is unconcealed, unapologetic, it has already happened, and it works. It has nothing to do Jews, except in the imaginations of people who blame everything they don't like on their imaginary version of "the Jews."

As to the book under review, I find it hard to imagine an otherwise healthy man needing a video primer on how copulate if he was in the same room with a willing woman. Some things really are driven by instinct. But instinct can be overcome by indoctrination and psychological conditioning, so maybe. Further, the idea that an entire society could be alienated from in-person contact and be disgusted by the idea of skin-to-skin human sexuality is, regrettably, plausible. Where all this is headed is a worthy topic for speculative fiction. There are too many books to read, but this one sounds intriguing.

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Anne Liebert's avatar

It is important to note that the 1960's obsession with over population came to nothing. It was a ploy for more government meddling in our lives. It is always the same, invent a crisis. Terrorize the population with "in twenty years this horror will happen". Constant hammering in the media. Even in the silly series Lost in Space they were leaving earth because of over population. Then they tax, curtail freedom, and/or try to destroy society. It is always a power play.

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NDDV's avatar

Distasteful? It’s a reality, not a matter of taste. A bitter reality, yes. Distasteful is your anti-blond anti-white anti-blue-eyed and ultimately anti-Platonic and anti-Socratic bias. Once those populations are replaced as it seems it’s happening, we won’t have a West anymore. Tragic, in the greek sense.

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Lillian Wang Selonick's avatar

I’ll have you know that my dog has beautiful blue eyes.

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NDDV's avatar

Blue-eyed is a matter of speaking. Dogs are carefully bred by races, purity and all that. But we (you) are talking about something different: we’re talking about “cultures”, in the modern sense. Persia was a great culture and now is an Islamic nightmare. It was conquered, replaced in the sense that its original culture perished and became something else. In Europe, that culture happens to be white. White is a horrible skin color, I particulary prefer black or mulatto. But I live in a culture created by the white palefaced brutes. And you too.

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