* As the New York Times explained this week, mass migration across the Danube offers the receiving country “an opportunity to rejuvenate its aging demographics and ensure its economic prosperity …”
This is one of my pet peeves about demographic commentary.
If you are bringing in lots of foreigners, and/or if those foreigners are having lots of children, it’s not your demographics that are being rejuvenated. It’s theirs. It’s like how some American commentators brag about how, unlike Europe, “we” in America have replacement-level fertility.
No, “we” don’t, unless you think that a nation has no a priori relationship with the people who created and settled it.
Can you imagine elites in Israel saying, “The Arabs are rejuvenating our demographics, hooray!” But that’s par for the course in every other Western country. If terms like “cuckservative” and “Cultural Marxist” didn’t exist, we would have to invent them.
Is it too much to ask for an elite media establishment that doesn’t regard the European peoples as demographically expendable?
