CPAC leader Matt Schlapp isn’t pushing back against white nationalists’ conspiracy theory that immigrants are replacing white Americans. In fact, Schlapp has an idea to allay their fears.
During the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, which was being held Hungary (aka the epicenter of backsliding democracy), Schlapp told reporters that the solution lies in Supreme Court’s expected overturning of Roe v Wade.
“For people that believe that we somehow need to replace populations or bring in new workers, I think it is an appropriate first step to give the … enshrinement in law the right to life for our own unborn children,” Schlapp said, per Vice.
The conservative leader’s argument directly aligns with white supremacists’ reason for joining the anti-abortion cause: To make white women produce white babies to offset the growing immigrant population.
“If you say there is a population problem in a country, but you’re killing millions of your own people through legalized abortion every year, if that were to be reduced, some of that problem is solved,” he said. “You have millions of people who can take many of these jobs. How come no one brings that up? If you’re worried about this quote-unquote replacement, why don’t we start there? Start with allowing our own people to live.”
Schlapp’s comments came after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who’s been pushing his country into a distinctly authoritarian state, declared during his appearance at CPAC that European countries were “committing suicide” by allowing immigration.
U.S. conservatives’ embrace of “great replacement” fearmongering has come under scrutiny in wake of the deadly shooting in a Black neighborhood’s grocery store in Buffalo, New York on Saturday.
The suspected shooter, Payton Gendron, allegedly carried out the massacre as a response to the racist conspiracy theory.
So he wants to ban abortion for Whites only? I don’t get it.
“If you say there is a population problem in a country…”
“…normal, sane people would almost certainly assume you were talking about overpopulation and the problems it causes, like making sure everyone is fed and employed…at least until you opened your mouth and spewed your next sentence, which would make them look for the Punked cameras…”
Wait. He wants to ban birth control also. Talk about unborn children!
“Save those who could have been conceived.” Right?
And back alley and coat hanger abortions will probably kill more people of color than whites, so there’s that added benefit, too.
That’s right, ban it only for whites, subsidize them for anyone else. Also ban lesbianism, IUDs and Onanism among whites.