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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 7, 2026

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Per Google Search’s AI, it’s nothing I haven’t heard here a dozen times from prolific posters:

While his early essays focus on resource allocation and overpopulation from a Malthusian ecological lens, watchdog organizations and historians trace his white nationalist label to several specific actions:

  • Leadership in Nativist Groups: Hardin served on the board of directors for the Social Contract Press, a publication designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a hate group. He was also heavily involved with the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and Californians for Population Stabilization.
  • Funding from the Pioneer Fund: Hardin accepted funding from the Pioneer Fund, a foundation established to promote eugenics and fund controversial research into the hereditary basis of intelligence and race psychology.
  • Writing and Correspondence: He contributed to far-right publications like Chronicles and The Social Contract. Decades of his private correspondence—such as letters with heiress and population control financier Cordelia Scaife May—revealed explicit support for policies aimed at maintaining a white, English-speaking majority in the U.S. and promoting racial segregation.
  • Belief in Racial Homogeneity: Later in his life, Hardin argued explicitly that multicultural societies were unstable and that only racially homogenous societies could successfully manage resources over the long term.

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/garrett-hardin/

I have no respect at all for the SPLC. "designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a hate group" just means they aren't sufficiently progressive. Which this Malthusian born over a century ago certainly wasn't.

Based on my memories of reading his writings: he was very concerned about the fact that parts of Africa are desertifying. Those localities' ability to grow food is decreasing over time. So it is an enormous act of cruelty to dump food on them. That lets their population grow yet further past their decreasing food supply. That's endless escalating starvation and dependence. And if the aid ever stops it is mass starvation on the scale of the worst communist policies. He's concerned for their welfare so he cautions against poorly thought out aid programs.

I wasn't aware of his private letters. That's disappointing. Oh well. I would also like an English speaking majority in the US. I'm sure the SPLC would smear that popular and valid view as "hate". Using their non-standard understanding of that term.

That lets their population grow yet further past their decreasing food supply.

It's not a requirement that any region, state, or even nation be self-supporting in terms of food production, even if it is probably a good idea where possible for a few regions. But Singapore is never going to grow enough food for itself, for example.

Singapore has a functioning modern economy. They can buy food. The poorest people on earth with desertifying land cannot.

a publication designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a hate group

Oh well, if the SPLC says it! At this stage, I wouldn't trust the SPLC if they said "This new German politician with the first name Adolf seems a bit dicey", given their track record on "scaring the crap out of older people is a perfectly cromulent fund raising technique" and "the supply of hate groups fails to meet the demand, let us redress that balance".

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