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Controversy Erupts After Italian Minister Calls for Boosting Birth Rate to Avoid 'Ethnic Replacement' (Video)
Rairfoundation ^ | 04 20 2023 | Amy Mek

Posted on 04/21/2023 2:41:26 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Day by day, it becomes harder to deny that mass migration aims to erode and ultimately annihilate the unique cultures of local and national communities.

Italian Minister of Agriculture, Francesco Lollobrigida, warned that Italy’s low birth rate and an increase in irregular immigration could lead to “ethnic replacement,” sparking anger from the country’s left-wing opposition.

The brother-in-law and close political ally of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s remarks come in response to a recent report which found Italy has one of the world’s lowest birthrates with fewer than 400,000 births in 2022.

Lollobrigida’s comments were made at the national congress of Cisal Tuesday, where he discussed the issue of demographic growth and the importance of creating a welfare system that enables people to work and raise a family. Lollobrigida emphasized that boosting the birth rate is not about convincing people to stay at home more but instead creating an environment where young couples can find employment and build a future for themselves and their families.

The solution is to help young couples find employment. The answer is to enable everyone to read data that reveal that demographic growth and better state aid work side by side, even within our national territory.

We cannot yield to the idea of ethnic replacement. The ethnic replacement means: Italians have fewer children, so we replace them with someone else. That’s not the solution. In the regions with fewer welfare programs, a more significant demographic collapse is reported than in other regions.”

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KEYWORDS: birthrate; immigration; italy
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1 posted on 04/21/2023 2:41:26 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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At least someone is attempting to save Western Civilization instead of “replacing” it.


2 posted on 04/21/2023 2:46:20 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: yesthatjallen

If western countries don’t have babies, their old age pension programs (social security) will eventually go bankrupt. So if they want to avoid starvation in their old age, have babies now, or increase immigration. To do neither is suicide.


3 posted on 04/21/2023 2:46:56 PM PDT by rexthecat
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To: rexthecat

That’s BS. Japan is getting by just fine without replacing their people with “immigrants” aka invaders.


4 posted on 04/21/2023 2:47:57 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: yesthatjallen

Identifying the problem is a good portion of the battle.


5 posted on 04/21/2023 2:49:43 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (It's science and therefore cannot be questioned!)
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To: yesthatjallen

The number one way to improve the birthrate is to improve the economy. The cheaper it is to live the more children people will have. This is one reason why the baby boom generation was so big. My parents were able to save three million dollars by the time they’d retired in the seventies. There was almost no inflation between 1955 when the bought a Dodge Royal with no power anything and no carpet for $2500 and 1970 when they bought a Dodge Polara with the same engine, power steering, air conditioning and carpets for $3000.

Try doing anything they did then today. An average worker, like my dad, is going to barely be making it. The average price of a car today is around forty thousand dollars.


6 posted on 04/21/2023 2:50:12 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: imabadboy99

if your definition of ‘fine’ means tons of old people dying alone and/or in squalor and the economy grinding to a halt.


7 posted on 04/21/2023 2:51:27 PM PDT by jarwulf
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To: yesthatjallen

Here’s a thought, why not come up with policies that help people have more babies while encouraging a baby-friendly culture to take root? What does he expect women to do? Look at people in the street, shudder, and then go hit her husband up for more sex?


8 posted on 04/21/2023 2:51:28 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (Haley 2024)
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To: yesthatjallen

Why is ‘diversity’ only a priority in White countries? Why doesn’t anyone ever call for ‘diversity’ in Arab countries, or African countries?


9 posted on 04/21/2023 2:52:19 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: Gen.Blather

A better way is to dismantle libtard and feminist propaganda. The economy can help birthrates but its the consumerist two income stay at home moms aren’t important mindset along with libtardation that got us in this mess in the first place.


10 posted on 04/21/2023 2:53:43 PM PDT by jarwulf
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To: jarwulf

Whatever. Sounds like more neoCON “diversity is our strength” BS. Some of us will fight to save Western Civlization. Others will seek to destroy it through immigration and replacement. I know which side I am on.

And as to your point, the 10’s of millions of legal and illegal replacement peoples / invaders in America did nothing to prevent our elderly from dying ALONE in nursing homes that were virtual prisons for the last several years, did it pal?


11 posted on 04/21/2023 2:59:18 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: imabadboy99

Japan actually welcome immigrants, but they are very selective. They want people who contribute to their country and respect their culture. I have family members who are permanent residents.


12 posted on 04/21/2023 3:00:19 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: jarwulf

We need to encourage women to be mothers! Mothers are much less liberal than single, cranky, “liberated” karens with no stake in the future of society.


13 posted on 04/21/2023 3:00:27 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: jarwulf

What got us into this mess to begin with was breaking up traditional extended family units that used to provide childcare along with old age care. This was done to usher in the modern age of atomic families that could move hither and yon as employers wished.


14 posted on 04/21/2023 3:02:58 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (Haley 2024)
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15 posted on 04/21/2023 3:06:06 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: yesthatjallen

There is nothing wrong with being proud of your national heritage and wanting it to continue.
Italy has a very rich culture to share.
If you import a lot of people with no interest in promoting or supporting that culture, it quickly dies out.


16 posted on 04/21/2023 3:06:32 PM PDT by lee martell
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Japan has made a decision to sink to the last Japanese. They my not be able to maintain their infrastructure on their current trajectory. I don’t fault their decision. I actually support it. However they have decided upon a slow self extinction. The could make a 3-5 generation decision and immediately have 3-5 kids per woman. However their current young men and women won’t even date or interact with each other. Short of an immediate cultural revolution …

They are having issues with abandoned property. Maybe they can import upper middle class Anglo retirees or even better traditional religious anglo married couples. They will do neither. Beautiful country, people, society …


17 posted on 04/21/2023 3:07:08 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Censored !)
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To: yesthatjallen

Sweeping Italy crom North to south and deporting everyone who arrived in the last 20 will be required


18 posted on 04/21/2023 3:08:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: jarwulf

“The economy can help birthrates but its the consumerist two income stay at home moms aren’t important mindset along with libtardation that got us in this mess in the first place.”

I’m a low-end landlord. Every couple is working. I gather that they’d rather not have both working if they could eek by without two incomes. But when minimal electric bills are $150 per month, and you never know when you might need to replace an engine or pay for an unexpected medical bill it would be a risk if one person stayed home to raise a child.

My dad was making enough money as a union electrician to send all three kids to college and still save a bundle. He even retired early due to health issues. Of course, although I thought our home was very adequate it was nothing compared to the average home of today. They owned it outright because my dad and his father built it.


19 posted on 04/21/2023 3:11:54 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: rexthecat
If western countries don’t have babies, their old age pension programs (social security) will eventually go bankrupt. So if they want to avoid starvation in their old age, have babies now, or increase immigration. To do neither is suicide.

Wrong!

Third World migrants take more from the system than they put in. England is full of large Muslim families entirely on the dole. Ditto Sweden, Germany, etc.

Furthermore, a large percentage of Third World migrants are anti-white racists. Do you think a few decades from now, when they're the majority, they'll happily financially support a large population of elderly whites?

A shrinking population is not suicide. You can cut back on benefits. But importing large numbers of violent thugs demanding handouts and reparations only makes things worse.

20 posted on 04/21/2023 3:18:57 PM PDT by Angelino97
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