Elon Musk is obsessed with falling birth rates, as is the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n. Why would leftwingers want to buy into their \u2018pronatalist\u2019 agenda?<\/p>\n
\u2018Perpetuating humanity should be a cross-politics consensus,\u201d read an article in the Atlantic<\/a> last week, \u201cbut the left was mostly absent at a recent pronatalism conference.\u201d It\u2019s such a simple proposition \u2013 everyone loves babies and wants the species to perpetuate, right? \u2013 but pronatalism has provoked a ferocious battle<\/a> on the American left. Should they be trying to engage meaningfully at a preposterous far-right conference? Or should the left stop self-flagellating and start organising?<\/p>\n But what is pronatalism \u2013 and is it really borderline fascist<\/a>? I don\u2019t want to think about slippery, bad-faith, rightwing claptrap any more than you do, but in an era in which US politics can sneeze and the world catches encephalitis, we do, regrettably, have to think about bad-faith everything, all the time.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Elon Musk is obsessed with falling birth rates, as is the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n. Why would leftwingers want to buy into their \u2018pronatalist\u2019 agenda? \u2018Perpetuating humanity should be a cross-politics consensus,\u201d read an article in the Atlantic last week, \u201cbut the left was mostly absent at a recent pronatalism conference.\u201d It\u2019s such a … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}