Reply #283: Actually, the thread isn't about your fatwa against smug yuppie breeders, either.

[Warren DeMontague]

It's about one person's assertion that she should be able to make up her own damn mind, which I agree with.

It's funny-- these "smug, self-centered yuppies" that you're so sure are pumping out way "too many" kids.. got any demographic data to back THAT up? Because, it's already been established that you don't want to hear how the population explosion on planet Earth is generally confined to third world countries, instead of the US and Europe-- and you certainly don't want to hear how the population 'problem', as it is, in the US is due to immigration, not birth rates.. See, bringing up where overpopulation due to high birth rates means one is a 'racist', and mentioning immigration is similarly taboo to some elements of liberal orthodoxy...

But I find it fascinating that you're so sure that there are millions of "smug yuppies" pumping out 'litters' of babies, then presumably giving them SUVs and arming them with flamethrowers to send them into the rainforest to start celebratory bonfires on their 16th birthday. It's sort of like how the right wing, in the 80s, was convinced that there were legions of black 'welfare queens', having babies and eating bon-bons while taking limosuines to the welfare office to pick up their checks. No amount of factual evidence was ever provided, and no amount of demographic information to the contrary could convince those docker clad proto-dittoheads that this Reaganesque fantasy was just that.

Similarly, I guess you know that the country is overpopulated by Escalade-driving screamingly selfish yuppie broods, all giving the finger to you and your righteous sensibilities as they force your favorite hipster radio station to stop playing Ani DiFranco and start playing the Wiggles. Anyone mentioning the fact that most of the people with large families- i.e. more than 2 kids- in this country probably aren't "smug yuppies" at all, is probably wasting their time.