Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Breitbart – CBC News author Kristen Pyszczyk thinks its outrageous that some parents choose to burden the planet’s climate by having lots of children, when there are lots of migrants who need a new home.
It shouldn’t be taboo to criticize parents for having too many kids
Celebrities Chip and Joanna Gaines took some heat for announcing they are pregnant with their fifth child.
Kristen Pyszczyk · for CBC News · January 14
Chip and Joanna Gaines, stars of HGTV’s Fixer Upper, were probably surprised at the backlash on social media last week that accompanied their announcement of baby number five. I was surprised too.
Not because I disagree with their critics, who admonished the couple for having too many kids, but rather because it’s a sentiment so seldom heard in a society that generally celebrates procreation with almost militant cheerfulness.
While having a child or five is a very personal choice, it’s also a choice that affects everyone who inhabits our planet. So while many people might find the backlash unwarranted, it’s actually a conversation we need to have in order to challenge our uncritical acceptance of the life-fulfillment-through-procreation story.
.@chipgaines swears he can already tell it’s a boy. Look at the little heartbeat!! 🙌🏽❤️❤️ #5 pic.twitter.com/bUwC3T91Cl
— Joanna Gaines (@joannagaines) January 3, 2018
Population control is a fraught topic, and carries with it associations with eugenics and other nasty historical events. But we still need to talk about it, and people who reacted strongly to the Gaines’ pregnancy announcement know this on some level. It’s not an exaggeration to say that the survival of our species depends on it.
In August of last year, New York Magazine published an article claiming we are living through a mass extinction. The article claimed that the earth will be uninhabitable within 100 years due to various consequences of climate change, food shortages and economic and political instability.
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Shame is a powerful tool for changing behaviour: it’s how we introduce new and existing social conventions. It’s unfortunate that Chip and Joanna bore the brunt of changing attitudes, but let’s learn from the reaction and examine our own actions.
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And if the birth rate in Canada declines, so what? As old You-Know-Who cuts off aid to not-for-profits that educate on abortion, restricts immigration and stops sending money to countries that need it, we will have a steady supply of smart and talented immigrants. Their loss, our gain.
Anyway, here’s wishing Chip and Joanna the best!
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/chip-joanna-gains-pregnancy-1.4481165
My heart goes out to Chip and Joanna. What should be one of the happiest moments of their lives is subject to public bullying by eco-lunes who think the announcement of a woman’s pregnancy is a good opportunity to talk about climate change and population control.
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They might be right on 13 counts: Thing 1, Thing 2, Thing 3…….Thing 13…Recent news from wacky California…
Actually the parents should be ashamed, not for having the 13 children, but how they treated them…I do support the 13 children…
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Someone does not understand what the word pregnant means.
Kristen Pyszczyk probably understands immigrants more than we.I don’t think that’s a Canadian name? Wondering how many siblings, cousins and aunts/uncles she has.
What if the migrants come from big families?
“What if the migrants come from big families”, you ask?
ANSWER: No problem, as long as the big families are from poor countries to whom the US should be giving money to support. THOSE big families are okay, since they are MIGRANTS, which somehow magically disqualifies them from the stigma of having come from big families. We are not supposed to support the people from big families in our own country, you see, but rather ignore our own country and give our support to the rest of the world.
It makes so much sense.
yeah…and then the migrants have BIG families but thats dandy?
cos theyre not white
so thats pc/greentard acceptable, and they also wont be lectured on family size cos??
its their religion so off bounds for criticism
“a choice that affects everyone who inhabits our planet”.
” cuts off aid to not-for-profits that educate on abortion,”
” With a fertility number of 7.19 children per woman Niger has the world’s highest birth rate”
These people only hate Christian ‘White’ families with many children. They don’t think about ‘poor’ families, families ‘of Color’ excluding ‘White’, or Muslim families. It is what we call a ‘striking double standard’, ‘xenophilia’, and ‘nationally constructed racial thinking driven by left-biased motivated reasoning’.
Yes, the word celebrity leads to misguided thinking. Joanna is born in Kansas, deplorableland, and has been based in Texas, deplorableland.
Then the migrant genes get passed on instead of those of their snowflake enablers. What these folks are promoting is ending your own genetic line to foster the continuation of another family group. I only took Anthropology 100 in the 70’s, but this seems totally opposite of what I was taught about human nature.
Pop; In reference to your second sentence, perhaps like the movie “Idiocracy”?
Pop, you should read up on “r” and “K” reproductive strategies and associated psychology, philosophy, and political leanings. Leftists are effectively “r” strategists, and for an “r”, it makes total sense to abandon your own genetic line and favour foreigners (especially foreign “K” strategists; the competitive advantage from that is convoluted but biologically actually makes sense). That of course is complete nonsense to us K types. Humans are naturally K but we can epigenetically switch to r in the presence of abundant resources (or even the perception of same), or in chaotic environments, both of which favour an r strategy.
“totally opposite of what I was taught about human nature”
The same can be said for most left wing policies.
That’s right. Bring the Masai warrior and his 8 wives and 40 kids over.
It’s all right, because that’s cultural. It’s the Trump voting rednecks that’s the problem. /sarc
BTW, the eight wives is not racism.
Those who think it was, listen, it’s a sourced fact. Just google ‘The Maasai village we visited was run by a man who proudly had eight wives. Each wife and the children had by her live in one of the huts constructed from cow dung. The hut also holds some of the livestock at night’.
You will find a trigger warning, that suits so well to people who deny inconvenient facts.
…..And for certain allow him to bring his herd of cattle since cattle form the basis of his self-image.
They will have and indeed do, contining the cultural practice.
It seems to me that Kristen Pyszczyk’s parents had one too many children
You said it!
They never offer to do something about the problem by dying promptly themselves.
Yes. Plus, the biggest Climate Fascists are typically the biggest hypocrites. How many kids doe Gore have?! FOUR. Four CO2 emitting (and with daddy’s money, at numerous times the “average” rate) “climate burdens.”
Hopefully, Chip and Joanna will learn something from this, and teach all five of their children about the need to resist the political agenda the “Climate Nazis” push with every fiber of their being. And hopefully each of them will have five of their own and teach them likewise.
+1
It’s not that they had too many kids, it’s just that one turned out to become a very aggressive cyber-bully.
Here’s an independent confirmation.
https://epistlesofthomas.wordpress.com/2018/01/13/when-is-cyberbullying-ok/
Well that was well said.
+1. Made me laugh. Made me wish I’d said it.
CBC News author Kristen Pyszczyk thinks its outrageous that some parents choose to burden the planet’s climate by having lots of children, when there are lots of migrants who need a new home.
Why doesn’t she open her home to them then?
they have homes its just that they are in “less than ideal” countries … and rather than fix their countries they run away …
…and they think that’s they kind of people who will make America great again (or ever).
Sad, demented, uncritical thinkers.
Kaiser D, my ancestors fled “less than Ideal” conditions to come to the new world and try their fortunes.
The difference is that there is no more new frontier land to squat on and claim. They sold what they had in Europe to finance their passage and establish a domicile in America.
The migrant victims of over-population are not running away because they choose to, they are like the ants and bees driven from the nests. Nature has no compassion when habitats become overcrowded, and the Pizchick plan is for people to selflessly abandon their geneology and raise the progeny of the uneducated, unproductive victims of third-world dictators, whose only talent is to procreate.
Yeah Kirsten, how about you taking up this cause in the Middle East to save the planet.
Conversation my rump, they want to be able to walk up and lecture folks like the poorly raised barbarians they are, and “people with a bunch of kids” are about the only target their selfish lifestyle doesn’t include.
I’ve been getting this fecal matter since folks realized we had three! They really don’t like it when you don’t bow down and scrape an apology out for their cheap grace.
Stop with the bullying! The same people doing the bullying love to quote Stats Canada when it appears to be to their advantage. Well Stats Canada says the AVERAGE Canadian family has
1.2 children – not the case with migrants. They come with 2 to 3 and have more. So, stop commenting unless it applies to everyone.
This is true, but the reasons why immigrants from poorer nations have a tradition of larger families is because of survival rates. From what I have seen, the children of those immigrants have families much the same size as anyone else once they have become Westernised. Language is a good example of this. The immigrants may never speak the local language well, but their children will be fluent.
I read somewhere that 1st gen immigrants have family sizes that reflect their home country.
2nd gen tend to be about half way between home and host country.
3rd gen on, tend to be whatever is the norm for the host country.
1) My use of home and host was merely to keep the terminology the same for each generation.
2) I’m speaking averages, anyone can come up with examples that don’t follow the average.
3) It’s sad that I need to add points one and two.
Well their are those for whom a very large family including several wives is a mark of wealth! These are not from the poor segment. Did you know that the most popular name of newborn boys in UK is now Mohammed?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/dec/01/britain-most-popular-baby-name-muhammad
Even Kirsten will be ghettoized before long.
“My heart goes out to Chip and Joanna. What should be one of the happiest moments of their lives is subject to public bullying by eco-lunes who think the announcement of a woman’s pregnancy is a good opportunity to talk about climate change and population control.”
They also apparently believe it’s a great idea to flood the West with the overpopulation from cultures which breed at a truly prodigious rate and then go on to further stimulate their breeding potential on the agar plate of generous Western welfare states. This level of insanity is something for which I can find no suitable words.
Shame is the next bitcoin, trade it with your friends!!!!! Narcissism is epidemic!!! yea
The West is toast.
The answer is offset credits. For every child you have, buy an offset from a more virtuous person who has aborted.
Why should only those who have chosen abortion profit from this program? We keep hearing how the vast numbers of baby boomers reaching retirement age are putting a huge strain on our economy. Euthanasia can eliminate this burden while simultaneously providing offset credits for the next of kin.
And if that doesn’t prove effective enough, we can go on to more proactive means of lowering population numbers. Like by making it a contest to see who can eliminate the most surplus population, with points awarded. Maybe a car race.
http://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/styles/1200×680/public/wire/legacy/DeathRace2000.jpg?itok=Iel22AH7
Or maybe Global Thermonuclear War?
How about gas chambers? They are even more effective and can be disguised as mass showers.
Muslim men have up to four wives and up to 20+ children…jihad welfare warfare…to promote jihad while living on the dole…as advocated by Imams…
And critics like Worrall and the other liberals never mention Muslims, they are probably cringing at the possibility of death threats
I’m not a liberal.
no you are not a liberal because you forgot what liberal is supposed to mean …
Kaiser, liberal seems to mean whatever one wishes it to mean. Nothing more, nothing less. Liberal in Australia seems to be different to Liberal elsewhere.
I criticise Muslims as much as I criticise anyone else, when they try to exploit nonsense climate claims to advance their political agenda.
e.g.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/10/27/claim-climate-change-responsible-for-severe-flooding-in-the-nile-delta/
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/03/01/terrorist-plan-to-destabilise-america-using-the-climate-issue/
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/11/01/al-jazeera-climate-deniers-costing-400000-lives-year/
LOL. Well, it goes this way for the lıberal thinkers. Don’t have kids, adopt the ones from afar that need our generosity. I’ve got nothing against that, actually. In fact people who foster kids are near-saints. But the truth also is this: we also have a responsibility to pass along our genetic heritage; if we suspect genetic “difficulties” (such as latent genetic diseases), there is enough genetic screening and ‘counselling’, that one really can do the right thing for future humanity. But having one’s own kids, and raising them ‘right’ is both an honor and a social obligation in some circles.
In the end, if you have kids, be happy with them, and try to instill in them values, mores and ethics that’ll serve them and society well in life. NO more, NO less.
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“have a responsibility to pass along our genetic heritage”
I reckon people like Kristen have a responsibility NOT to pass along their genetic heritage.
Responsibility or not, I sure hope she doesn’t.
Though unlike her, I won’t lecture her if she chooses and option that I wouldn’t have.
It’s probably not her genetics but her programing (education). She may very well be an intelligent individual who is wildly astray.
That being said I would allow her to procreate, but I certainly would not want her to raise the children.
Worrall is just as bad as the righteous social media posters with his value judgement “not because I disagree with their critics” at the beginning of his article. The decision to have children should be up to the parents, and I commend Chip and Joanna for being married parents with the resources and dedication to raise five or more children. If they can afford to do so which means feeding, educating and taking care of them properly, they should have ten children if they want. It is the same as criticizing someone for owning a large truck or using a gas guzzling boat.
The parents and single mothers who have five children and no resources to raise them are the problem and they outnumber people like Chip and Joanna
Worrall was hiliting in the article. It didn’t seem like agreement, but emphasis on the self-righteous lunacy of the original author.
For instance, he emphasizes shaming. If that doesn’t work, they will probably press for law.
I’m criticising this eco-lunacy, not condoning it.
I recall a documentary, or maybe a news cast, years ago that I saw about a family where the parents had 16 children somewhere in Tasmania IIRC. The entire adult compliment of the family were on welfare. There opinion was “We are doing our job for Australia by having these children so we expect welfare” or something like that. There are thousands of people here who have this attitude. Every year I get a statement from the Australian Tax Office that shows a breakdown of where my taxes go. Right at the top of the list is welfare. Last year, over AU$45,000 of the total tax taken from my earnings, using the skills and abilities I have leant and acquired over the years, went to welfare.
The purpose of government is to transfer money from those who work for a living to those who vote for a living.
Welfare is the belief that when you take money from those who work, in order to give it to those who don’t want to, you can improve society.
Eric is quoting Kristen Pyszczyk here to highlight her views, they are not his words!
Read it again.
Some dude: Do you see how much your valid point is diminished by your blatant error, attributing to Worrall the very thing he is criticizing? Your comment below indicates medical training, is that why you can’t admit your error?
In modern society, many large families exist because they can get massive amounts of welfare.
I did not believe such people existed and thought the subject of people having babies to receive welfare payments was made up by right wingers. Until I went to medical school and did rotations in hospitals that served a large number of poor people, and some of the mothers readily admitted they had babies for the welfare payments. I pity the children and hope some of them become productive happy adults.
South Australia – yeah!
I reckon family help, ok maybe, but ONLY for the first two children.
After that, you pay your own way. (maybe modify for multiples)
But this continued payout has to stop, especially when it is used in family groups allowing large incomes for zero work.
Usually has more to do with single mothers and multiple fathers; there’s also a lot of fraud in getting the kids diagnosed as disabled for the SS check.
Voting needs to be limited to those who are net taxpayers.
Are you in favor of removing the US federal subsidy for all children of taxpayers? That is, the income tax deduction for dependents.
Christ! Now we have to curb our embryo emissions!
That’s where they are heading:Population control. Emissions control isn’t enough now desire to control procreation. it was tried and found wanting in China: Where are all the girls? CONTROL is the active word and children are now the focus as CO2 control has been a bust in control of climate.
Ian… Winner. Winner. Chicken Dinner!
Embryo Emissions…
That is Gold.
“Shame is a powerful tool for changing behaviour:”
But people like Kristen have NO SHAME, so their irksome, self-righteous, interfering, busy-body behaviour will never change.
so lets see this bimbo run something on the kardashians latest”emission” number 3, by a proxy mum
guess kims over DIY childcarrying
Hopefully Kristen will get multiples of what she dishes out. Maybe we should all hang around her place and criticize her for how big her house is (you know, based on *our* “standard” for how many square feet someone *needs*), how she gets to work (drives?! the horror!) – and she drives WHAT?! Surely a smaller, more fuel efficient, and infinitely more life-threatening econo-box would suffice! Etc. ad nauseam.
Under the diversity doctrine, people are interchangeable by color. Under selective-child, we are, in fact, disposable. For purposes of democratic leverage, business interests, social justice, resource redistribution, and “clean” wars, immigration reform (e.g. refugee crises) is a political imperative.
There’s a special place for classical CBC-types; presumably they have space in a cloistered room, away from reality, where she can share thoughts with David Suzuki and others of their ilk. Or maybe she’s just plumping for a job on CNC or MSNBC.
In Suzuki’s places (at least two homes), he can revel in his fathering five children and at the same time lecturing on over population whenever given the opportunity.
https://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2010/10/13/david-suzukis-five-kids/
Sorry, meant CNN…
Everyone needs to watch the futurous movie on this subject on YouTube Red called “The Thinning”, the UN identifies the problem and sets quotas for each country to thin out their herds. America’s solution is to test every student over 5 every year. The dumbest students in every grade are put to death in the basement of their school, locked in their chairs, by lethal injection and made to disappear. If you can sleep after watching this, you are not human.
Thinning has my vote for best picture for the last 20 years.
I had trouble sleeping after seeing just the trailer.
It is the graceless, self-serving twaddle like this that keeps me off the morass of trash called ‘social media’.
Anything good, like a pending birth announcement, is treated as criminal behavior.
Anything bad, such as destroying private property (gas pipelines, anyone?) is treated as heroism.
When will the world get straightened out again? Well, it’s up to us to make it happen, people. Otherwise, this becomes ‘the Crazy Years’ that Heinlein wrote about – crackpot science disguised as religion, public shaming over doing normal things, being hounded for being yourself instead of a wacko, praising the wackos for their individuality.
We’re going to have to fix it and make sure it stays fixed, because these birdbrains are too stupid and self-centered to fix it themselves.
One thing I’ve noticed about many hippies. They go on and on about doing your own thing and being an individual who doesn’t follow the crowd.
While they stand there, everyone wearing the same uniform, tie-dyed tee-shirt, jeans with holes in them, long hair, all unwashed for a week or two.
So, I’m not the only one thinking about “The Crazy Years”.
They are crazier than anything Heinlein imagined. 🙁
I did sort of wonder if it was just me seeing it that way. Thanks.
The “hippies” are the most extreme conformists I’ve seen in a long time. They can’t even think for themselves, never mind figure out how to use a can opener to open a can of beans. (Not a joke. There’s a video of it.) Remove them from the cities where everything is within walking distance and they will starve to death, end up lost, freeze to death, die of thirst, etc.
If you dropped them off in a forest preserve around my area, near a parking lot, they’d have no idea how to get home.
You see it, too.
Bless you.
Constantly Biased Corporation should have been defunded decades ago.
As a fully funded auxillary of the Liberal Party of Canada this bunch of tax dollar consuming parasites are famous up here for their lying by omission.
CBC’s coverage of the CRU emails was amusing, silence for weeks.
Claiming the emails were stolen, hence it would be unethical to publish them, after having been all over wikileaks and other such.
CBC just went over the top about an alleged attack on a 11 year old muslim girl.Lecturing all Canadians about racism..after the “attack” was revealed to be a lie, they lack the spine to apologize.
Investigative journalism is something they may have heard about, somewhere, maybe.
Since President Trump being elected,CBC has had Trump Derangement Syndrome to the point it is hard to find any Canadian news on their outlets.
They are so deranged they bring up and criticize President Trump while reporting a snowfall.
Strangely they use exactly the same talking points as CNN.
Perhaps the CBC should have a long talk with the Trudeaus about the sizes of their families. What is the total for Pierre and his ex? Six? And doesn’t Justin already have two?
More self-hating liberal crap from the Canadian Broadcorping Castration. Our culture is the best in history and is worth carrying on. Indeed it is our duty to breed and pass our culture to the future.
Cultural heritage matters. Here’s a link to a study of CEO performance in American companies. It found that CEOs with Polish roots were the best performers. It also found that the effect lasted six generations after the family originally immigrated to America.
Again, The Donald is much less wrong than his liberal elite critics.
When the birth rate falls to below 1.5 or so like it is right now in Italy, towns start to sound different because of the dearth of children playing. Family trees become inverted. Four grandparents have two children who have one child. This is the sound of a culture, a society, that is headed for death.
To top off this madness, such people advocate policies that facilitate the replacement of the indigenous people of the nation with people from far away, who hold cultural norms and religious beliefs that are hostile to the indigenous people. These replacements have no intention of preserving the nation’s culture, but to take over and replace it with their own.
This is sheer madness. Even three generations ago had some foreign power stated these policies in a demand, it would have been considered an act of war. Did I mention this is sheer madness?
+1
Deutsche Bank did a study a while back, and based on current demographic trends, world population will peak at 8.5 billion in 2055 and decline to 8 billion by 2100. Idiocy does not begin to cover Kristen’s world view.
AMEN!
I’m one of 8. All 8 of us have contributed to what is good. How? Because our parents were good and had values they tried to teach and pass onto to us. The best they knew. Members of “The Greatest Generation”.(At my Dad’s funeral the receiving line was 8 hours long. He wasn’t a politician or a celebrity. He was just a very good man who touched many lives.)
Those of you with more than one kid, which one would you replace with an illegal or legal immigrant?
Disclaimer: After my oldest moved out, we had a legal immigrant live with us. I gave her away at her wedding.