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I read the DHH post in question: https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64. It is pretty standard anti-immigrant. It feels like it is acknowledging the fact that the populations of Western countries are in a demographic crisis, they are sub-replacement in terms of fertility but instead of fixing that he just wants to ban immigrants. It feels like fixing the fertility issue would solve the root issue.

>>bhoust+(OP)
That is always the case with this kind of rant. People want to have the cake and eat it too.

>>bhoust+(OP)
You don't need to carry water for racists and invent more palatable explanations for what they said. There's nothing in there about not enough British people - only about too many foreigners (whom he can tell by looking at them).

>>bhoust+(OP)
He wrote another blog post promoting fertility, so at least he’s consistent.

>>gsincl+uo1
Promoting sustainable fertility is good in my books. We need sustainable fertility like we need sustainable environmentalism, and similar things.

I strongly believe that low fertility causes immigration backlash because some governments try to maintain their population by importing immigrants rather than fixing the fertility issue and a low fertility causes the domestic population to be insecure (e.g. "replacement theory") in the face of the immigrants. Some immigration combined with sustainable fertility is the solution.

>>fwip+ev
> There's nothing in there about not enough British people - only about too many foreigners

It's the same thing, because the motivation for the immigration policy, per the people implementing it, is to avoid demographic collapse.

Generally too many people can also reasonably be considered a problem, if the intended solution to the social services problem is endless exponential growth. Especially on an island.

> (whom he can tell by looking at them)

There are different ethnicities of "white people" who can be told apart by looking. So "he can tell by looking" does not mean that he is applying a racial standard.

Your argument depends on a notion that English, Italians, Germans etc. "all look the same". But last I checked, people who would say the same about, for example, Chinese, Japanese and Koreans would be called racist for that.

>>zahlma+Ce9
> There are different ethnicities of "white people" who can be told apart by looking. So "he can tell by looking" does not mean that he is applying a racial standard.

damn, you are really catching the straws here to defend a racist

It's obvious he meant brown people or anyone that isn't white/european looking.

There is no genetically pure or distinct native British phenotye to set apart other europeans.

Europeans have been mixing themselves for centuries, he obviously knew what he was talking about (non-whites)

>>flykes+V4b
I refer you back to >>45386018 . What you say is "obvious" is your completely unsubstantiated perception.

> There is no genetically pure or distinct native British phenotye to set apart other europeans.

Nevertheless, such ancestry can be reliably determined by genetic testing, and Europeans do recognize it by sight. https://blog.23andme.com/articles/23andme-adds-more-detail-f....