Percentage of all homicide victims who are women.

Honduras: 6%
Nicaragua: 7%
Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela: 8%

South Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong: 53%

— i/o (@avidseries) May 23, 2025

And look at their respective birth rates.

Yes, it’s crucial to withdraw from Trump supporters the welcoming environment they have enjoyed on US campuses so far. Only until Trump backs down from whatevs the new grievance is, of course. After that, the friendly, open-minded interactions can resume. MAGA hats will fill classrooms on par with BLM tees all over again.

Minor quibble with JD Vance: Nowhere is it easier to have a family than in Europe, where they live close to other family members and have massive social safety nets and cheap housing. And yet, birthrates are still at an all-time low.

Economics seems to have little to nothing to… pic.twitter.com/dEsI09yDMU

— Douglass Mackey (@DougMackeyCase) May 23, 2025

Economics has nothing to do with birth rates in the very limited sense of money payments being useless in motivating births. But it has everything to do with bringing to life neoliberal subjectivities that are intensely consumerism and narcissistic.

Capital needs fewer people. It needs people who aren’t tied down with obligations. It needs us to be a raging maw of desire whose primary libidinal object is the self. A person who says “I don’t want to have children because they will prevent me from going to the movies whenever I feel like it” privileges unbridled consumerism over any other consideration. This person is concentrated on what she can ingest over what she can create. And yes, at its root, this is a function of the neoliberal economy.

A while ago, we talked about a woman who doesn’t want children because she wants to make shakshuka in the morning instead of tending to a child’s needs. This is an example of the need to ingest being put ahead of the need to bring forth. All she will produce is literal excrement and digital excrement in the form of photos of the shakshuka she’ll post online.

We are not doing anybody any favors by conceptualizing everything in the neoliberal language of choice. Choices people make, especially on such a massive level, are a result of objective conditions. That’s what we need to look at if we are to reach any understanding beyond platitudes.

Now, who’s eager to read Neoliberal Love where I talk about this at great length?

It’s honestly impossible to decipher leftist language:

How can you pass down something you don’t own?

“I’m trying to pass down my neighbor’s truck but it’s difficult.”

Ya think? What if people start passing down your belongings? How will that go over?

The main issue for the Left is not a lack of paid influencers. It’s the terrible vacuity at the heart of its understanding of what a human being is.

They have rejected genetics. Once you say things like “assigned male or female at birth”, you have thrown this entire branch of science out of the window. They have no answer for why Eritrea is Eritrea and Sweden is Sweden. They have no explanation for why Eriteans in Sweden are still very much Eriteans. No explanation for why decades of fussing around with racial differences in all sorts of outcomes only made the gaps worse.

The movement has become intellectually impoverished to the point where it can process basic science (e.g. viral transmission). All it has is word games. We’ve spent days hearing an endless vapid discussion of what’s a genocide and what isn’t. People see a video of a stadium chanting “kill the farmer” and it disturbs them. You can’t dispel that disturbance by arguing over definitions. You need a clear explanation of why you think that’s acceptable when if there were a stadium full of whites chanting “kill the blacks”, you would not think that acceptable.

There is one word I prohibit students from using. I tell them that the moment I see it in an essay, I stop reading. I tell them to use context search and remove it.

That word is “society.”

I see threads like this and wonder why these men (NOT ALL MEN ffs) are so angry. There are more in the comments raging at her for making “poor choices”, but.. my entire youth I was told, BY SOCIETY, the most important thing was to build a career and to put off kids until my 30s. https://t.co/HmcLWXfkh3

— rue🌿 (@Ruesavatar) May 21, 2025

What leaves me somewhat shocked though is the  virulence of the reaction from the left of all shades, the influencers and general rabble  on social media, the mainstream media and even ordinary South Africans.

The Promised Land (as inspired by Karel Schoeman’s 1973 award-winning novel)

It’s really interesting that neoliberals want everybody to be on the move, emigrate, get displaced, except for white people. You can see it in the endless vituperation of the “white flight” and in the unhinged and utterly disproportionate reaction to the arrival of a couple dozen Afrikaners in the US.

There’s a similar trend in discussions of birth rates. Recently, a video of Hillary Clinton made the rounds where she expressed outrage with policies promoting childbearing among whites. In Clinton’s words, non-white migrants have better birth rates already, so it makes sense to just bring them on over.

Meanwhile in Germany:

The police officer… approached the suspect who was damaging a police car with a knife. The officer grabbed the man, and a struggle ensued, during which the officer was seriously injured.

https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2025/05/berlin-neukoelln-polizist-verletzt-messer-freilassung-staatsanwaltschaft-badenberg.htm/alt=amp.html

Guess who was let go and who is being investigated for a crime.

Obviously, the knife-wielding maniac was let go lest he should be deprived of an opportunity to do more damage.

The comment section of the linked article was closed after 3 hours.

It’s not all useless, though. One of the people at the writing group is a librarian. Her research is about why so many librarians are gay. She says any convention of librarians she goes to, everybody is gay.

I didn’t know that or thought about the sexuality of librarians at all but this explains a lot. Our university library now looks like a hybrid of a gym and a public bathhouse, so there’s that.

At the writing group, five female professors could have talked about anything they wanted. There’s no agenda or script.

Do you know what they chose to talk about of their own free will?

How much they love DEI.

“As a white cisgender woman, I realize how important it is to amplify voices of marginalized groups…”

They literally get together to recite these slogans at each other. By choice. With enjoyment.