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Re: that Amis interview. First of all, everyone is I hope vaguely aware that he got hired by Manchester Victoria university so they could have some nice names on their letter head, to disguise the fact that their creative wirting course has produced exactly 0 writers of note, compared to My Lot, down the road from Manchester Victoria, who despite being based in what can only be described as a Young Ones or Mickey Mouse Univsrsity, have produced many.
THIS RAISES QUESTIONS! Namely, why anyone, just because they happened to have written some novels, would be any good at teaching about it (this answered by the fact that he doesn't actually teach). Secondly, why anyone, just because they happen to have written some novels, ought to be asked about politics. Answered by the bullshit Amis regularly spews. I almost, almost, had some sympathy for him at first because I was told about his sayings by pro-Amisites who said he was being witty and attacking people who were making the content over form mistake in the literary world. Except he's not, he's just being a prick.
He then drags Steyn's arguments into a whole other swamp of reaction. "He doesn't even dare say it actually," he says, "but his thesis is that when you allow women to choose [through contraception and abortion], you will face demographic disaster, because they won't choose to have the necessary amount of children. The reason that America is the only First World country with a non-declining birth rate is because of all those things we hate about it, you know – [it's] patriarchal, church-going. I'm going to take this up because I think it's such an enormous question – has feminism cost us Europe?"
I pause. So are you saying we need to restore those misogynist values in Europe, to fend off a Muslim demographic tide? "My, that's an appalling idea," he says, smiling. "But I do think it is amazing, of the unsuspected weakness of the desire to reproduce, women don't want to have children. They may want one, but they don't want two or more. Who would have thought that? We thought that was an absolute basic human fact. It isn't."
So white people's women need to have more children and do as they're told, otherwise there'll be too many brown people, who as we know are all sexist and evil and will abuse women. Of course, I mightn't not actually mean that because I might be just testing the water, you know, asking difficult questions. Get fucked, Amis. Go and squeeze out more books about Gulags and Nazis, which incidentally sell to exactly the sort of people you sneer at for taking poshlust too seriously. |
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