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Today is International Workers' Day, a holiday with socialist origins. Its name hearkens back to a time when the political Left was ostensibly devoted to the cause of human welfare. These days, however, some on the far Left care less about the wellbeing of people than they do about making sure that people are never born at all. How did these radicals come to support a massive reduction in human population, if not humanity's demise? Whether it's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioning the morality of childbearing,
a birth-strike movement that encourages people to forego parenthood despite the "grief that [they say they] feel as a result," or political commentator Bill Maher
blithely claiming, "I can't think of a better gift to our planet than pumping out fewer humans to destroy it," a misanthropic philosophy known as "anti-natalism" is going increasingly mainstream.
The logical conclusion of this anti-humanist ideology is, depressingly, the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (Vehmt). According to its founder, activist Les Knight, Vehmt (pronounced "vehement") is gaining steam. "In the last year," Knight
told the Daily Mail, "I've seen more and more articles about people choosing to remain child-free or to not add more to their existing family than ever. I've been collecting these stories and last year was just a groundswell of articles, and, in addition, there have been articles about human extinction."
Comment: By bowing to the mainstream media, promoting "authoritative sources" and basically turning themselves into 'television on the internet', YouTube is killing what made their platform great in the first place - original creators. People don't go to YouTube to hear the big MSM voices - they go for original content and to find things they can't find on television. By demonitizing and deranking anything slightly controversial, YouTube is accelerating its own trip into irrelevancy. Will they figure this out before they hemorrhage yet more billions?
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