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Don’t you think it was odd that Daniels mentioned starting families and low birth rates for college grads in his speech? That’s a white nationalist dog whistle if I ever heard one.

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Can you explain how those are dog whistles? I don’t understand.

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My reasoning comes from Marxist feminism (the intersectional flavor). It’s about material conditions of child bearing and rearing. Labor, especially reproductive labor, is not rewarded with capital fairly nor is it even seen socially as important (think lack of PTO for new parents). The conservative call to action of birth rates is racist because despite the economic reality of the nuclear family (costly, lonely, isolated), it is the only way to uphold white supremacy and patriarchy. We should be living in community with one another. The phrase “it takes a village” didn’t come from nowhere. Plus, the fact is that the birth rate for minorities, especially immigrant minorities, is not declining as sharply and soon we will have a minority majority (see Jose Antonio Vargas for more on this). Republicans fear that.

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