Stalin, Hitler, Ann Romney and Other Mother-loving Monsters
Michelle Goldberg on the totalitarian implications of Ann Romney’s Mothers’ Day holiday column:
“In a lot ways, the column was totally anodyne, right? She’s, you know, yes, motherhood is beautiful. I found that phrase, ‘the crown of motherhood’ really kind of creepy. Not just because of it’s somewhat — you know, it’s kind of really authoritarian societies that give out like a Cross of Motherhood. They give out awards for big families,” Goldberg said on the program’s panel.
“You know, Stalin did it, Hitler did it,” she said.
Indeed they did. I wonder what horrible regimes still dole out rewards for large families?
(Data from 2002, full table can be found here, page 145; I have re-sorted by the fourth column of data where the original table is alphabetical.)
So, let’s see: Austria. France. Belgium. Luxembourg. Well . . . I guess they were all conquered by Hitler.
(h/t Steve Sailer.)
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