Don Parriott

“The speaker held a finger up. “I know what some of you are thinking—because it was once my opinion: what does population matter? So what if we have fewer people?” He shrugged theatrically. “Well, consider your own experiences. Consider the towns and cities in your life that have seen gradual population declines. Consider the loss of tax base. The aging population and the lack of resources to deal with those people. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.”
― A.G. Riddle, Antarctica Station

“Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, a fellow progressive, explained that the state had the ability to restrict reproduction of those with Down syndrome, since “It would be strange if [the public welfare] could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the State for these lesser sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned, in order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence.”7 Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, called for the sterilization or quarantining of some “fifteen or twenty millions of our populations” in order to prevent the supposed poisoning of the gene pool.8”
― Ben Shapiro, The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent

“Are we raising more moral humans? If you said yes, I’m afraid the studies don’t support that. In fact, several well-designed surveys suggest that empathy levels in college students have declined by about 40% over the past 30 years.”
― A.G. Riddle, Antarctica Station

“The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted. . . . .The way to defeat bad ideas is by exposure, argument, and persuasion, not by trying to silence or wish them away.”13”
― Ben Shapiro, The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent