Pro-lifers! This
video is a must-see!
I am not kidding when I ask pro-lifers to check out this
pro-abortion propaganda. It’s slick and convincing. And I get it on my FB feed
every time one of my good solid pro-life friends approves and passes it on: it’s
all over the place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE
Check it out! Commentary attached below.
It’s from Numbers USA, founded by John Tanton. He’s much
more dangerous than Margaret Sanger. Sanger devoted her life to making the
feminist movement subservient to the eugenics movement. Tanton has given his
life to recruiting conservatives including pro-lifers to support population
control. It was weird enough when mothers were recruited to the abortion
movement; this guy successfully recruits avowed pro-life activists! Watch how
it works!
He says he’s talking about immigration. That’s true, but it’s
a detail, not the whole story.
Step 1: KISS: keep it simple, stupid! Don’t personalize
poverty; use statistics. One gumball = a million people. That’s a good round
number, and it’s about the number of documented (“legal”) immigrants into the
USA each year.
Step 2: make the connection: immigration is about poor
people. Make a smudgy claim: immigration is to alleviate poverty. I’ve never heard
anyone say it that way, ever; but it sounds plausible.
Step 3: stack ‘em up! The numbers are overwhelming, and
unstable!
Step 4: There are three billion poor people, and we aim to alleviate
poverty to helping one gumball. Ah! That’s why he said immigration is about
poverty. So it’s one gumball out of 3,000 rolling around in the pretty musical
wineglass! There are 65 gumballs on the road, looking for a new and safe home. 65:
we can handle that, but 3,000 is just nutty!
Step 5: But then, we double the gumballs in their stacks! The
immigrants aren’t the really poor; we have already given up on them! It’s the
middle bunch, another 2,600 Mexican gumballs! (Sorta Mexican, Mexican and folks
like that – but keep saying Mexican, because we don’t like Mexicans, do we?
Mexican, Mexican.)
Step 6: Who wants to let 2,600 Mexican gumballs in? The “elites”!
We hate them too, right? But the elites are stupid people. Take a gumball from
the crazy stacks, and put it in the musical wineglass, and you can’t see any
difference at all in the crazy stacks! 5,600 gumballs, minus 2-3, looks a lot
like 5,600 gumballs! So we destroy America, for nothing! The audience groans in
frustration.
Step 7: Suppose we take TWO gumballs annually. That would
really destroy America! But you still can’t see the difference in the world of
5,600 gumballs! Aren’t those elites stupid?
Step 8: And you know who emigrates from poor countries? The
strong and able (and eugenic) types. So we’re draining the gene pool of the world.
Those gumballs should stay home and help their neighbors!
Step 9: It’s worse! While we take one gumball, those other
gumballs are breeding like rabbits (or guppies, or fruit flies – or marble
factories!) We take one out each year, and they “added, births over deaths,”
80. “Added”: that’s a funny way to talk about giving birth. But somehow he’s
got to get the birth idea across. So he wraps it up: those poor people “added,
births over deaths.”
Step 10: And then, look! The marbles don’t fit in the tall
glass columns anymore! Next year, when we take one marble, the marble will
breed another 80, and those marbles pour all over the table and floor!
And the climax: “Don’t you see, immigration can never be an effective
or significant way to deal with the suffering people of the world. They have to
be helped where they live. … Let’s help them there.”
So what did he do?
1.
The marbles are out of control! He’s a nice guy,
so he didn’t say we gotta make the marbles stop breeding, but that’s the only
solution, right?
2.
He didn’t address population control. He said he
was talking about immigration. His action item was about the marbles that want
to come here. Keep them out!
3.
If you accept the marble image, you accept his
picture of a population explosion.
4.
And if you accept that there’s an uncontrolled
population explosion, you can’t fix it, but you can avoid it! Don’t pour
marbles in my wineglass! NIMBY!
What would make the presentation more honest?
1. First: use six bowls for six continents. We can
squabble about how full to make the bowls. But however full you make them –
half full, or quarter full, or just a layer of marbles at the bottom of each
bowl – the North American bowl has to be far emptier than the other bowls!
2.
Second: Most people are staying where they were born. Today,
about one percent of the people of the world (65 marbles) are on the road. That’s
unprecedented! But there’s a difference between 65 marbles and 6,500 marbles.
3.
Third: It would be more honest to point out that the
people who defend the immigrant marbles are also helping the stay-at-home
marbles overseas.