Can you explain the relevance of that book to the article you are commenting on?

It’s also hilarious that this has to be paired with two admissions.

First: Men let it happen. Everything fascists and Christian nationalists (but I repeat myself) whine about happened because of white men. This is why they almost always rediscover anti-Semitism: Jews are the ideal scapegoat because they (or at least the ones they care about) look white and so can be blamed as the secret powerbroker. But that only kicks the can down the road: Apparently whites and Christians are predisposed to being played by other groups or betraying their own group. This is just an inevitable consequence of the numbers involved. There just cannot be enough “fake” white straight Christian men to change the reality that everything they hate is the fault of their own groups, because those groups obviously had the power. (And, of course, when these guys need to shore up the good they can claim, they will suddenly talk about how awesome “Western civilization” is and all of the good things they want to destroy, which in turn invites the question).

Second: This means that these people despise the golden age of state capitalism. The greatest period of prosperity and peace in world history. They rank abortion (which was happening anyways before it was legal, as abortion bans don’t work) and everything else they list as more important than poverty and death being greatly alleviated.

They have to simultaneously want to go back to the 1950s, but not do so really.

 You weld-up a manual hoist from scratch, which any woman can do.

That reminds me of an interesting anecdote. At the college I had attended, I heard a woman engineer speak. She mentioned that she was required to learn welding as part of her engineering degree. One day out on the job, a critical component broke. All the engineers were standing around trying to figure out what to do next. She announced that she had learned how to weld in college. She welded the broken part, and they were back in business.

So, yes, women can weld.

Which of course begs the question: what evidence is there that any of those things is “bad”? What does the word “bad” even mean in a sentence like that? I know what they usually say to answer those questions, but it’s all dumb or mythical, like what I analyze here.

And that’s what we got in the Wilson debate: he never even explained why sex or native population decline is bad, and certainly never recovered that claim from my rebuttals (I disproved both his claims to their being bad and Christianity being able to fix them even if they were); and even when he tried to come up with something, it was dumb, like saying STDs must be stopped so sex must be stopped, an argument that would warrant outlawing the entire food industry, alcohol, driving cars, and would entail—ironically I am sure—forced permanent lockdowns to prevent flu deaths, which exceed STD deaths per annum now several times over. It’s all just irrational.

I don’t know what that means, but imagining them connected is almost as old as Christianity itself.