Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Ben Wattenberg" in English language version.
If you don't understand the destruction of Planned Parenthood offices, and you don't understand the wall we're going to build on the southern border, you haven't read The Birth Dearth by Ben Wattenberg. Ben Wattenberg was a brilliant Jewish man who was a member of the American Enterprise Institute. He wrote a book the first paragraph of which says: The main problem confronting the United States these days is that there aren't enough white babies being born. He was an advisor to presidents of the United States. He wrote the book in 1987. He says if we don't change this and change it rapidly, white people will lose their numerical majority in this country and this will no longer be a white man's land. Now, I'm not misrepresenting this. I'm telling you almost exactly what he says. He says there are three things we can do. Number one, we could pay women to have babies, as they have been doing in western European nations for years. Then he says, and these are his words, not mine: Unfortunately, we would have to pay women of all colors to have babies. So we don't want to do that. He says the second thing we could do is increase the number of legal immigrants that are allowed into this country every year. Then once again, he says, unfortunately, the vast majority of those wanting to come to this country are people of color. So we don't want to do that. The third thing he says – and white women had better pay attention to this – 60 percent of the fetuses that are aborted every year are white.
Graham's comments relay what social scientists and antiracism activists call "White Extinction Anxiety," or "Fear of White Genetic Annihilation." The idea that White people could "go the way of the dinosaur" has been dismissed by some as simple pity of personal circumstance or conspiracy theory, but the convergent effects of new laws banning abortion together with old laws promoting mass incarceration of Black and Brown people suggest that this White fear is not just an idea, but the catalyst for public policy. There indeed appears to be a strong correlation between demographic projections, the fear of White genetic annihilation, and the recent wave of abortion bills. Antiracism activist and diversity trainer Jane Elliott described it as a fear so great that White people, including political leaders, "will do anything to see that doesn't happen." Hyper-punitive abortion legislation recently passed in Alabama bans the procedure outright except in cases of risk to a woman's health, and in Georgia a woman who obtains an abortion will spend the rest of her life in prison. Of 212 lawmakers in Alabama and Georgia whose votes ushered in the most restrictive abortion laws we've seen yet, 211 are White. What drives all of this is nothing as philosophical as religion. It's not faith. It's not principle. It's the fear of genetic dominance of Black and Brown people. The late Frances Cress Welsing, psychiatrist and author of The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors and The Cress Theory of Color Confrontation and Racism, is well-known for her theory of Black and Brown genetic dominance over the White recessive gene. "People of color have the capacity to genetically annihilate White people," she explained, "and unless White people control the reproduction of people of color, we can postulate that perhaps one day there won't be any White people." However, Welsing was not the only one who held this belief. Her contemporary, demographer Ben Wattenberg, wrote in his book The Birth Dearth that the main problem in the United States is the low number of White births. Wattenberg believed that White people, without a change of course, would lose the numerical majority in the U.S., and it would no longer be a White man's land.He proposed three ways to address this: Pay women to have babies, increase the number of immigrants, and prevent abortions. The first two, he wrote, aren't the answer because they would also increase the numbers of Black and Brown babies. But the third, he posited, would solve the "birth dearth" problem because 60% of abortions are performed for White women.
