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Re:The case against masks at school by onedognight on Thursday January 27, 2022 @03:32PM (#30106128)
It’s only increasing due to immigration, if I’m reading this correctly.

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...

Re:The case against masks at school by pge on Thursday January 27, 2022 @04:13PM (#30106779)
Not yet - if you look on pages 5 and 6 of that report, you see that births still exceed deaths in the US. Without immigration, though, population will stop growing in the next two decades (but it hasnt stopped yet).
Re:The case against masks at school by adamrezich on Thursday January 27, 2022 @04:10PM (#30106731)
ah, so everything is going according to plan then.

downvoters: is this outcome undesirable? if so, why, and what can we do to fix it? because I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to say that having more kids is a good thing, and using immigration/migration as a means of replacing those kids we're not having is a bad thing.

thus, is this outcome (declining citizen birth rates, increased immigration/migration compensating for it) not the intended, desired one?

Re:The case against masks at school by AussieWog93 on Thursday January 27, 2022 @05:29PM (#30107867)
(I think you may have been downvoted because your initial comment appeared to be referencing the "White Genocide" conspiracy theory - essentially the idea that the Jews are planning to slowly eliminate the white race in the West and replace them with blacks and Muslims.)
Re:The case against masks at school by thoms_a on Thursday January 27, 2022 @06:36PM (#30108633)
This is a bizarrely specific conspiracy theory (and seems to be designed for maximum divide & conquer of voting populations) which I've never heard of. What exactly led to its inception? I always enjoy engaging with conspiracy theories, as they are a great training regimen for keeping one's mind sharp and empirically grounded, but I don't even know where to start with this one!
Re:The case against masks at school by AussieWog93 on Thursday January 27, 2022 @08:05PM (#30109449)
>What exactly led to its inception?

From what I understand, people noticed the fact that whites were gradually becoming a smaller proportion of the population of Western nations, due to both lower fertility and increased immigration.

In addition to this, some migrant groups (notably Muslims from the middle-east) have higher-than-replacement fertility rates.

Extrapolating this out, the idea was that whites would eventually be "replaced" by Muslims and other "minority" groups over the course of many decades.

I don't quite know how the Jews got involved in the conspiracy, but I always found the accusation that they're trying to increase the population of Muslims to be a bit ridiculous.

Re:The case against masks at school by adamrezich on Thursday January 27, 2022 @11:03PM (#30110580)
notice that I did not say anything about races or religions or groups or anything, aside from, implicitly, "people who were already citizens of any given Western nation" and "people who are immigrating/migrating to said nation, en masse". my original post, untainted by your invocation of specific groups of people to brand my post as being an invocation of a specific—named even—"conspiracy theory" to be harmful to discourse, because once you have invoked that, not only is all further discussion is off the table, but now I'm now actively in a pickle here because I have to say something or else risk possibly being perceived as an anti-Semite when someone looks in my post history and sees your accusations not responded to by me. I don't know if that was your intent or not but I ask that you please be more sensitive to these things, especially when I'm posting here using my real name.