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I wrote this in a multi-paragraph youtube comment, stood back, and went........... 'no one will read this here'" lol.

Content warnings for the usual things Republicans are into (racism, transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, etc...... oh yeah and eugenics)


Disclaimer Just to be clear, I'm not an academic or well-read on the subject or a professional smart person, this is just me combining things that I've half-remembered and I wish I knew where I learned these things and was confident I'm reciting them correctly. Again, this was written for a youtube comment. To all the smart people reading, your mileage may vary.

JD Vance's obsession with people having kids is so so so Christian nationalist coded. From the Christian nationalist racist perspective, it's all about white Christian conservatives having more kids and creating more white conservative voters and maintaining a white majority. They don't have to say the "white" part out loud because most of their base is white in the first place. These people try to create this dynamic of "good white people" (creating more white voters, maintaining a white majority) and "bad white people" (white queer people who tend to have no kids or very few, white women in careers who choose to have less or no kids, white people who are too poor to have children, white people pick "abortions" over kids (even though that's not how that works, etc.) (See also: How they want to ban birth control.)

(I know JD Vance's wife isn't white or Christian, but maybe that's part of why he's talked about this so much, is he feels like he can advocate for this without giving away the game.)

All of the Republican social issues and many of the fiscal issues come back to this, I think. They're against childcare assistance etc., because they view those things as going to people of color. A lot of the pundits now are like "Ha, it's so silly for Vance to think being a parent is the only way to be when the party doesn't help people with childcare assistance" because to the Republican party, the people who they're addressing when they speak and the people they imagine receiving childcare assistance are not the same.

I stole this image from this them article

This is also why Republicans are so obsessed with (white) trans kids. To them this is all about fertility. They would much rather have a white trans man, say, live in a hostile anti-trans environment, be confused about his gender, get into a relationship with a straight cis man in his early twenties, have a couple of white kids and THEN transition. They would hate for him have pro-trans, supportive parents, realize his gender as a kid, and have a hysterectomy as a young adult. They don't give a shit if he's happy or not as long as his kids are white and they might be tempted to vote conservative.

Which is not to say that they like people of color who live their lives in ways that Republicans read as "less likely to have kids" (being queer, career-oriented women, having access to abortion, etc.), in part because these ideas have been part of the party so long that they're smoking what they're selling and genuinely hate trans people, abortions, etc., regardless of race. It's just like a bonus to them to have more reasons to hate people they already hate. It's like "Oh, I already hated you for one thing, now I have two things!" (Though on the other hand, see also... eugenics, forced sterilizations, etc. Oh hey, a source!)

When I was somewhat younger, I brought these ideas together in my head by thinking Republican's over-arching goal here is to be anti-sex (which was how Christianity seemed to me). But honestly, at least in its current state, I don't think sex has very much to do with it. I think it's the eugenics party.


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