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Kragar7/25/2011 12:39:55 pm PDT

The Love Blog isn’t going to love this:

Breivik’s Demographic Warfare and the American Right’s Demographic Winter


In my previous post, I noted how Anders Breivik’s “demographic warfare” appears to be informed by the American Christian right’s hysteria over “demographic winter,” citing the work of Kathryn Joyce.

A closer examination reveals another shared belief: the significance of the 1683 Battle of Vienna.

The Howard Center and the WCF see themselves as culture warriors against liberalism broadly and the sexual revolution more specifically, protecting America (and the world, for that matter) from forces that would undermine its numbers and its might. For a specific example here at home, the Howard Center has decried family planning, including federal funding for contraception under Title X (which has been under attack by the Republican Party under the guise of “defunding Planned Parenthood) as “the U.S. war on American fertility.”

Obviously the WCF isn’t advocating massacring people. But “saving Europe again” by evoking the Battle of Vienna is a theme that became the frame for Breivik’s manifesto, triggered by the same paranoia that anti-Christian forces seek domination over the continent.