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Nice veiled reference there, very subtly done, ha ha you are so clever to link Fascism and Zionism!
Look, if we hadn't had a war within (just about) living memory over a damn good attempt to wipe out the Jewish People and Jewish children, you'd have a point. But given that the extirpation of European Jewry (and any where else they could manage to conquer) was indeed an aim of the Nazi party, there is some grounds for forbearance on "let's encourage our people to have babies".
I mean, haven't we already had plenty of posts and comments on here about "so the fertility rate in the West is dropping like a stone, how do we encourage women to have babies"? Should such commentary be free from criticism, given that they want to ensure white birth rate goes up?
If there exist Jewish extremists who are primarily driven toward increasing their own bloodline and racial power, such that they support abortion for “goys” but desire births for Jews, that interest is at odds with the interests of everyone else. Again, it will lead to extreme conflict in the future. Jews would be the first ones to criticize White Americans if they did what some of them do.
This is what I was going to say as well. It looks at only one side of a historical antagonism. The other side being the accusation that Jews have a covert interest securing their future, at the expense of the societies that hosted their population over time. Whatever one believes about that is beside the point.
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