So let me tell you something that we all feel but few have dared speaking up about. When we see a white woman with a white baby, we see the perpetuation of white supremacy. It scares us on an existential level. White babies makes us feel unwelcome and like our beautiful children of color will never have opportunities or a dignified future.
This is important:
what I’m about to tell you is not hate for any kind of babies. It is the logical conclusion of any person of color operating under a historical system of white supremacy.
Believe it or not, upper middle class white lady, the purpose of being a woman is more than just having a McMansion and squirting babies into it. Women can — and should — seek fulfillment beyond the traditional roles of wife and mother. Your potential to contribute to society extends
far beyond the walls of your home.
Why is it so hard for white women to break free from privilege and understand that?
Consider the environmental impact of another Timmy and Karen running around. Each new baby contributes to significant consumption of resources in an already overburdened planet. Our society is grappling with climate change, resource depletion, and environmental degradation. By choosing to have fewer children or none at all, you can reduce your carbon footprint and help create a more sustainable future for all of us.
And the societal implications? The current demographic trends reinforce existing power structures. White privilege and systemic racism are perpetuated when the majority population continues to grow without significant changes in the status quo.
You can — are expected to — actively participate in dismantling these oppressive systems.
Reflect on the reasons behind your desire for children. Is it driven by genuine longing, or is it influenced by societal pressures and expectations? Ask yourself what kind of world you want to contribute to and how your choices align with those values.
Investing in existing children, particularly those from marginalized communities, can be incredibly fulfilling and impactful. Mentorship, fostering, adoption, or simply supporting organizations that work with disadvantaged youth can make a substantial difference. By redirecting your resources and energy that otherwise would have gone into creating even more privilege, you can help level the playing field and create opportunities for the folks who need them most right now.
The decision to bring more babies into the world has far-reaching consequences no matter your race. But white women are
key to ending white privilege, and we count on their partnership to help achieve full equality.
So you see, white woman, closing your legs for just a little bit is the only possible path forward for a future of peace and happiness for all.
Racist internet trolls are posting pictures of groups of white people to sow division and otherize folks of color in an era where we expect representation. We have receipts.
You know the situation. You scroll through your feed and come across a photo of a gathering of people. Something is off about the photo, and it makes you uncomfortable. It’s probably a family photo, but you can’t shake the feeling that something is terribly wrong.
Is it a sixth sense? Womanly intuition?
Are those children alright?
You continue scrolling, but the photo has shed its slimy glitter on your consciousness. Something inside you is somehow in need of repair, or a tub of ice cream.
And then it hits you.
The photo contained only white people, with folks of color conspicuously absent.
Our Democratic pretense of togetherness and multiracial peace and happy was…just…that. A pretense. A group of people had found themselves, intentionally or not, in a situation where there was a complete snuffing out of diversity.
And they celebrated it. Picture-worthy, even.
You might have noticed. Alt-right circles are buzzing with anti-cannibal fervor, and their toxic sludge is once again seeping onto social media. Even if you don’t follow any right-of-center accounts, the algos are dripfeeding video after video of what is purported to be Haitian cannibalism into all our timelines.
But what is cannibalism, and why is the right so eager to demonize it? If you are to believe the reactionaries, cannibalism is the act of eating another human being for some unspecified malicious reason. It’s really bad juju and definitely done under the influence of Satan, or George Soros (or both at the same time).
Quelle surprise: the imagery and notions underpinning this latest moral panic couldn’t be further from the truth. Cannibal culture is wide and varied, and has accompanied our species since the dawn of time. Cannibalism is often a deeply spiritual practice, or a desperate act undertaken in times of
famine or war, or a sacred act meant to honor a revered dead (endocannibalism).
Science
agrees with the need for reality-based views on cannibalism.
The Aztecs, for instance, utilized cannibalism in rituals. They believed that their sun god, Huitzilopochtli, was waging a war against darkness. Sacrifices were necessary to aid Huitzilopochtli in this war. Though it might seem gruesome to spoiled western cosmopolitans — who very well might imagine the people sacrificed to be tied up and having this act performed against their will — most evidence suggests that these people were willing participants. It was considered a great honor to aid the sun god, and those who offered themselves to the cause were treated with great reverence.