Hitler would have loved your pretty white babies

Swiped from one of my favourite blogs, Canadian Cynic, is this pensee from Blogging Tory Raphael Alexander, on how feminism has destroyed the family.

Mostly the white family. (Emphasis is mine.)

The result of the rise of feminism in western civilization has been a double-edged sword, affording Canadians the luxuries of an increase in income and wealth, at the expense of outsourcing population growth and rapid demographic shifts from the mainly European settlement population. Added to this is the destruction of the nuclear family, high divorce rates, leading to psychological problems, increased crime, and higher rates of poverty. As the economy evolves to reflect the status quo of one man and one woman working all the time simultaneously, it becomes more and more difficult for Canadians to live in the traditional role where the woman stays at home and has children.

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Filling the void in population are immigrants who have arrived so rapidly that towns which existed in Canada for hundreds of years have changed their demographic majorities almost overnight.

The rise in feminism has allowed liberties and prosperity for women which could never be understood or realized in nations in the Middle East, which labour under the delusion that a juggernaut economy can be manufactured out of the diligence of the male work force [oil-rich nations like United Emirates notwithstanding]. At the same time, it is interesting to note that extreme social conservatism in the Middle East has staved off all of the ills which come with women's liberation, like higher crime, poverty rates based on income gaps between families, divorce and psychological dysfunction, and a host of other problems.

Never mind that, for many women, the nuclear family where the wife/mother stayed at home was a psychological, if not physical, prison which led to, among other things, depression and prescription drug abuse.

Never mind that it was a mid-20th Century construct, mostly a backlash against the economically independent women who worked the factories while Johnny was marching off to war.

Never mind that women in Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich Middle Eastern states have virtually no rights. (And yippee! The Taliban sure knows how to keep those dysfunctions down, don't they?)

Because, goodness knows, there's no crime in the Middle East.

This guys blames feminism for all of our modern ills, like maybe TV or urbanization or industrialization or free trade or oil prices or off-shore manufacturing or WalMart or name-your-reason had nothing to do with anything.

The author goes so far as to suggest that Hitler's family values were good times:

Concerns in Germany over the lack of direction over which Germans would decide their population growth, led to Eva Herman being castigated for her view that Nazi-era family policies were the last successful governmental policies aimed at helping families. The worst part of this kind of politically correct sensitivity is that to a certain extent Frau Herman was right ...

Nothing an anti-feminist likes better than good old-fashioned fascism. This, by the way, is a subject I dealt with in a recent column.

I'd love to ignore this guy but his views are all too common.

Fascinating how some people, who claim to be all about individual rights and freedoms, are only about all about individual rights and freedoms for some of the people some of the time, especially if those people aren't women.

Well, heh-heh, we do have our ways of dealing, don't we?

Recent polls by Ipsos Reid for CanWest News Service show that support for the Conservatives among women trails support among men by a significant margin.

In four polls through Nov. 26, support for the party among men averaged 42 per cent, compared with 33 per cent among women. In the most recent Ipsos poll, released Dec. 22, the gap spiked to 15 percentage points. Forty-three per cent of men said they would vote for the Conservatives, compared with only 28 per cent of women.

"There really seems to be a very strong gender effect in Conservative voting," said Ipsos Reid president Darrell Bricker.

Say, isn't feminism responsible for women getting the vote?

Funny that.

 

 

Comments

[Mark Francis]

I guess he's arguing that all those human rights abuses and all that violence against women in those countries aren't to be counted as criminal activity?

[RossK]

Mark--

Sometimes the time comes to invoke the Doctrine according to the late, great Steve Gilliard which is that, at a certain point, you've got to stop trying to figure out what these people are arguing and instead just try to stop them.

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[JJ]

What RossK said. There comes a point of diminishing returns.

I, and Dave at TGB and others wasted hours trying to wrench some sense into RA, and while he conceded on a few points, it's clear that overall he just doesn't get it.

[François Villeneuve]

I'd like to add to your column that you linked in here... In there, you refer to Pope Benedict blaming the effects of "pervasive secularism" for Canada's declining birthrate.

Damn right he is! His Stormtroopers (I mean, priests) advised Catholic women throughout the better part of the 20th century to keep pumping babies until they couldn't, which was brought upon by either old age or death. This is the kind of environment that lead to families of 22 children, like Jean Chrétien's, and was responsible for Québec's "revenge of the cradles" its decades long population boom that separatist historians seem so proud of, without looking at who was actually giving birth to these babies. I think we would be hard-pressed to find places in the world where the Catholic church has been as successful in its babies-at-all-cost policies.

If this is the kind of thing that pervasive secularism results in, I say, bring it on.

[sooey]

Rightwingers always forget about the Feminist stay-at-home mothers. We're the ones what cause unrest.

[Raphael Alexander]

Antonia, thanks for weighing in here. I'd like to concede, for the record, my last paragraph in my two-part article was extremely inappropriate. There is little evidence to suggest that the Middle East has any added benefits from having a more stagnated form of social progression for women, and in fact there is likely a lot more evidence to the contrary. I regret the dubious assertion.

But you make a journalistic error when you erroneously make a link of my reasoning to white supremacy or xenophobic ranting. Firstly, that aspect of my article was highlighted because of the relevance of Germany's shared negative birthrate with Canada, and the similarly blind attitude the nation has to the problem. When Eva Herman was suggesting that out of Nazi policies may have evolved some beneficial measures for families, she was speaking to a purely political analysis, and not advocating Nazism. It would be ridiculous to say that because of the historical period of Nazism, one cannot analyze whatever socialist or economic policies they used.

The core aspect of my article links the rise of feminism to the decline in the traditional family unit, but one could just as easily blame the rise of post-industrial commercial capitalism, upon which is based our economy, necessitating the full-time work of two adults living in cooperative means in order to survive. My article was more a lament of the conditions which have led to the deterioration in the ability of the family to survive in an increasingly hostile environment for single-income earners, the difficulty in having children, and the reason for our out-sourcing of population growth, unsustainable economic expansion and growth at the expense of our environment, and several other factors.

Was it overly simplistic to blame feminism for all of this? Upon reflection over the past week, I think it was. But it doesn't invalidate the entirety of the article, and I still believe that at the core of feminism is derived of simple desires to overcome social injustice and individualism. But one must be concerned not to confuse the emancipation of the individual spirit with the marriage of the "career", and with it the folly of worship of consumerist habits, first world excess and spending, and the surrogate children that are large screen televisions.

[sooey]

And it's your business how Feminist Me lives my life... how?

[sheena]

the difficulty in having children
Well, Raphael... the way it was explained to ME, anyways, was that when a man and a lady love each other very very much...

[...pat.]

Oh, Rafael...
"the difficulty in having children, and the reason for our out-sourcing of population growth..."

You so Don't Get It.

My grandmother got it, FFS, and she was born in the first decade of the 20th century in Big Pond, Nfld.

What two-holed outhouse are you living in that you are completely missing what is going on in this modern world?

[neo]

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Hey, Zerb... nice friends you have... remember Canadian Cynic's message to Wanda Watkins, whose son Lane was killed in Afghanistan?

-- "With all due respect, Wanda, f@ck you and your grief. It's not the job of the rest of Canada to continue to let its soldiers die just so you can sleep better at night." --

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[Paul H]

'Rightwingers always forget about the Feminist stay-at-home mothers. We're the ones what cause unrest.'

Seems to me it is the CPC that is doing the most to help promote mothers like you. But do not ever give credit if it doesn't fit into your narrow world view.

Antonia...you say a lot about yourself when you quote the racist, sexist blog Canadian Cynic as one of your favorites.

[Antioch]

That fact that you refer to Canadian Cynic as "one of my favourite blogs", shows the depths of your depravity...

Regardless of political stripe, they're just plain vulgar which is a front to mask the lack of depth of the contributor's collective thoughts. You should really rethink who you hang with.

[John]

Wow, talk about irony. Isaac Amirian was right. White people really do like to compare each other to Hitler.

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/06/25/winner-4/

[Mr Kennedy]

Canadian Cynic is one of your favorite blogs? Wow! I guess you admire males who love calling women a name that rhymes with hunt.

I've never understood "progressive" feminists and their support for misognyists like Canadian Cynic, and their utter rejection of their fellow women in Afghanistan and Iraq.

What a sad sad life. No wonder feminists always seem so angry.

[Jack B. Nimble]

The dildo has now replaced the rolling pin!!

[Colin]

My wife (who’s not white by the way) was a successful lawyer, upon giving birth she decided that a career and raising children was counter productive. It was she that made the final choice, we downsized our spending habits to survive on one income. As for the article, everything stated about birth rates and immigration is true, just look at the stats. Also you will find that immigrants generally exceed replacement rates which is approx 2.5 kids per couple, I have 2, haven’t figured out how to do the .5 bit yet! Europe is already seeing the effects of a low domestic birthrate and the influx of immigrants. One of the problems with multi-culturism is that the “original” culture must remain dominant over the imported ones to maintain the ability for the others to co-exist. It’s a sad fact that the west is one of the few places that multiple races and religion live peacefully. In example Malaysia which is a Muslim country forbids the preaching of Shiitte beliefs, punishable with whipping and possibly death, in fact attempting to convert a Muslim there is a likelihood of punishment by jail or whipping.

As for the reference to Hitler, it is clear that his government did haul Germany out of crushing debt and inflation. Hitler was also highly concerned about family value, albeit for the wrong reasons. Hitler, Stalin and Mao all caused the deaths of millions (up to 100 million between the 3 of them) Yet they all enacted some polices and laws that had some beneficial aspects for a period of time.

As for “right-wingers” I grew up in a heavy NDP household with a father who was an MLA. Being around left wingers all my life cured me of any desire to be left wing, I find that people of socialist beliefs (and to be fair far rightwing types as well) are all to eager to curtail individual freedoms all for the “public good” of course.

Another interesting factoid, the US is the only Western country with a domestic birthrate that sustains it’s population, however the majority of births are in areas of strong social conservatism and areas of high liberal values the rates are well below replacement. Therefore Liberals are a evolutionary dead-end, except the wily critters have latched onto a way to multiple. They inhabit the education system and try to convert the young of all types to their beliefs in order to sustain themselves, rather like that wasp that injects self into unwilling hosts.

[nv53]

"... post-industrial commercial capitalism, upon which is based our economy, necessitating the full-time work of two adults living in cooperative means in order to survive"

The problem isn't capitalism, it's government intervention: taxes and regulation, and a whole host of agencies, boards, commissions and state-funded activist groups which produce nothing. That's why wages have stagnated for 30 years, even though a lot of industrial and commercial fields (notably computers) are much further ahead now than then.

"I still believe that at the core of feminism is derived of simple desires to overcome social injustice and individualism"

Collectivism is dangerous nonsense that leads to bloodshed, as both theory and history prove; individualism is the solution to the world's problems!

[Brendon]

"Collectivism is dangerous nonsense that leads to bloodshed, as both theory and history prove; individualism is the solution to the world's problems!"

Someone who is only thinking of themselves could NEVER harm those around them... could they? Oh wait, they could! I find individualists focus on their lives to the DETRIMENT of those around them. Thinking me, myself, and I are the most important people in the world only leads to a decay of society as a whole.

[Hoarfrost]

If the individual is protected from whatever then by definition the collective is defended.