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China hints at three-child policy with 'happy family' stamps
Speculation is mounting in China that the country is set to further relax its two-child policy and allow people to have more children.
Postage stamps unveiled earlier this week to mark the incoming Year of the Pig in February 2019 have led many social media users to question whether a loosening of family planning restrictions could be imminent.
The stamps show a parent pig couple and three piglets. On the surface, it hardly appears to be a policy announcement. But users on the popular Sina Weibo microblog have pointed out that two years ago, before the one-child policy was abolished, China issued Year of the Monkey stamps featuring two baby monkeys.
And in recent months, the Chinese government has been strongly encouraging couples to have more than one child. Local authorities have even been offering incentives, such as tax breaks, and education and housing subsidies.
A 2015 UN report projected that China's population would decline to about 1 billion by 2100, although some experts put the number even lower.
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 11 2018, @03:49PM (19 children)
and the childless women in power are now importing 3rd world patriarchs to make up for the labor shortage.
It would be the height of racism for white people to encourage more babies amongst themselves.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 11 2018, @04:26PM (4 children)
Imagine that - modded down for stating an obvious truth. Americans hate babies so much, they'll stick a coat hanger in there to kill the baby before it ever has a chance to breathe. A multi-billion dollar industry centers on murdering the most helpless members of society.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 11 2018, @09:00PM (2 children)
Simple solution. Balance things out by putting more money in to killing adult humans. Let's start with you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 11 2018, @09:02PM (1 child)
People are starting to catch on. Leftism isn't about making a better world, but rather about destroying what's been built.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 11 2018, @10:44PM
Well when there's so much hate, racism, and inequaliity created by righties to destroy, I'd have to admit it feels like a full time job to some.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 12 2018, @01:56AM
If you don't have a womb, better learn some since and get to working on a technique to grow yourself a complete female reproductive system. Probably too soon yet for an artificial womb update from our resident subatomic particle. If you already have a womb, then what are you bitching about? Get back in the kitchen. There's a very long line of incels that require your services. That thing ain't gonna impregnate itself with a white baby!
Don't forget to make each one a complimentary sammich.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 11 2018, @05:19PM (5 children)
For White people to encourage more babies amongst themselves and only themselves? Yes, it would in fact be racism.
To implement a policy that affects every member of the country equally instead? Not so much. Which is what China is doing and why you wouldn't call it racist. If their policy only allowed chinese people to have more babies but kept all minorities strictly locked at 1 child only - that would be called racist as well.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 11 2018, @05:48PM (2 children)
The OP never said "only".
Also, the OP never said a government should be involved.
Also, According to the 2010 census, 91.51% of the population was Han Chinese, and 8.49% were minorities, where "minorities" means "eyes shaped slightly narrower".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 11 2018, @10:48PM (1 child)
"The OP never said "only"."
The problem is the people that specifically mention "white people" in statements like the op, they're almost always so obviously racist that you can infer their intent.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 12 2018, @02:57AM
I mean, your comment is patently racist: "Mention white people explicitly, and you're probably a racist."
GTFO!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 11 2018, @07:10PM
So?
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I'm a racist; he's a racist; she's a racist; we're all racist!
Wouldn't you like to be a racist, too?
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(with apologies to Dr Pepper)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 12 2018, @02:13AM
How about for Jew people? Would it be a racism?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 11 2018, @06:04PM
Stupod statement of the year. So you are for universal healthcate?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 11 2018, @06:17PM (3 children)
I assume you won't object to others advocating race-mixing.
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by Sulla on Saturday August 11 2018, @07:55PM (2 children)
How else do you expect people to react when they are told to stop having kids because it is bad for the world and then the government turns around and says it is necessary to import immigrants from a different culture instead because people didn't have enough kids. I don't give a shit if people want to have kids with someone who is a different color, I don't care if someone who is a different color wants to have a bunch of kids, what I care about is the pushing of how valuable kids are as long as they are any color but white. If the left's goal was to cause a backlash by uneducated whites they could not have done a better job than they did by villainizing whites (peoples of europe) having kids and holding up everyone else having kids as a virtue. It sure seemed like a consorted effort. Growing up in a liberal city it was drilled into me from a young age that it was morally reprehensible to have kids, as I got older the narrative shifted to blaming that generation for not having kids and ruining the tax base for paying for the boomers, and then that turned into the need to bring in immigrants because they will have kids. Welll fuck, why didn't they just tell us to have kids? Sure looked like they were going out of their way to make one group stop having kids so they could bring in a different group. In the past year there has been a huge uptick in "white" folks having kids and suddenly the narrative is again how greedy that generation is for only thinking of themselves, while at the same point pushing for bringing in more people because we need to pay for social security somehow.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 12 2018, @02:24AM
There's a reason for that. It's called neoliberalism, and the confusion is intentional. The intention, of course, is to drive down wages. Neoliberalism takes positions every now and then such as on the environment that happen to coincide with the right thing to do. In this case, the real reasons have nothing to do with the environment, and that is reflected by their broader policies.
The criticism of Al Gore's private jet, for example, comes from an important place of intuition. The working class does not have ownership over our labor, so how could we possibly do anything serious about tackling pollution like allocating our wealth for biodiesel independent of the corn industry? Instead, the neoliberals tell us not to have children, then they import immigrants (who may not have some of the high notions about labor organization somebody who grew up in the US would have) to drive down wages (while unions become corrupt and part of the effort to drive down wages), all while repeating NO MONEY for things like serious biodiesel research (algae or whatever else that's better than corn) and social programs and continuing to dump an amount that is creeping up towards a trillion dollars per year (just around $300 shy this year) on foreign wars of capitalist imperialism and oil.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 12 2018, @01:17PM
I think you mean 'concerted effort' not 'consorted effort'
Concerted = acting together
Consorting = fancy word for screwing
hmm. On second thoughts, consorted is probably accurate too. This society is well and truly consorted.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday August 11 2018, @09:26PM (1 child)
As long as they colonize Africa, then it's a win-win situation. African genes get most of the savagery bred out and Africa becomes civilized.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 11 2018, @10:05PM
We knew EF would have something amazingly stupid to say about this.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 11 2018, @10:30PM
Hey. I was so busy thinking about how stupid SJWs are that I forgot about feminists for a while. Go fix me a sammich, woman.