Dave Smith Blames the Great Replacement on—You'll Never Believe This—Women
"In the 70s, women in large droves went into the workforce. We now look around 40 years later, 50 years later, and almost no Western white country has a sustainable birth rate."
I need you to see this completely unhinged rant from Dave Smith in his podcast yesterday. He was discussing The Young Turks host Ana Kasparian’s appearance on Bill Maher’s podcast, specifically an exchange thusly described by the New York Post:
Bill Maher left progressive news host Ana Kasparian fumbling her words after the pair clashed on his podcast when the comic suggested she would not be able to wear her Western-style clothing in most Middle Eastern countries.
Kasparian, host on the online left-leaning news network the Young Turks, sparred with Maher on his “Club Random” podcast on Monday’s episode when the two intensely debated Israel’s war in Gaza.
During the spirited discussion, Maher challenged Kasparian to name a city in a Muslim-majority country where she would feel safe wearing her white mini-dress, insisting Israel is the only country in the region that is accepting of Western culture.
“What city would you live? And where you think you’d be comfortable in that dress?” Maher asked Kasparian.
“I’m sure it would not be comfortable in this dress in any of the various Middle Eastern countries that have been destabilized,” she started to answer before the comedian interrupted her.
“You’re not really blaming it on whitey?” an incredulous Maher responded. “You’re blaming Islam on whitey?”
In his commentary on the segment, Smith was forced to triangulate between his staunch opposition to Israel, his equally staunch racism, and his cartoonish sexism. He ultimately landed on an argument that Maher is wrong to criticize Middle Eastern countries for their repression of women, because in fact gender equality is to blame for declining white birthrates in the Western.
See for yourself:
Let me preface this by saying I am not suggesting that we should live in a culture where Ana Kasparian can't wear a revealing dress somewhere. Okay? That's not what I'm saying. But isn't it a funny thing, just in the current moment that we're living in, and I gotta say, I think because Bill Maher, and I really don't mean this to be too insulting, but just as a matter of description, Bill Maher is a 70-year-old childless multimillionaire. And that just is a different place to be in life. But for the moment we're living in right now, right, Rob? You have second-wave feminism sweep in the 60s. In the 70s, women in large droves went into the workforce. We now look around 40 years later, 50 years later, and almost no Western white country has a sustainable birth rate. Literally, we're being bred out of existence because we're not having enough kids.
Kids are being raised in broken homes all over the place. People are having kids later in life, less people are having kids at all in life. There's more broken families than ever before. There's also kind of all types of cultural degeneracy that's just been sweeping the Western world. And it's interesting in that dynamic for your biggest complaint about another society being that like, "They keep their women in line over there." I don't know. I'm not saying—however you feel about that—and personally, obviously I'm American. I'm not advocating for some other—I can't really imagine even living in a world where a woman—it just, it does ring with a little bit of—it's almost like you're going—Bill Maher's argument is like, "They don't even trans their boys over there. Can you believe that, Rob? These Muslims, they don't even cut the penises off their sons and turn them into daughters!"
So that's how crazy it is. In fact, actually, I think they do do that. But that's not the point. The point is just it is a little bit weird when you look at—by almost any standard, the whole gender equality thing has not worked out that well. And I don't say that as somebody who wanted to come to that conclusion as much as it is, just empirically, look at it, dude. Sometimes it's hard to boil down terms like even basic little things like if you say, "This worked out better." You're like, "Well, what do you mean by better? What is the measure of that?"
But as far as human existence goes, it's probably hard to find a more foundational version of better than are you reproducing? I mean, that's how the thing keeps going, right? Is if we keep having more—not saying every single person has to have kids, but enough of us do that there's more people in the future. And when you're like—I don't know, it's just kind of hard to look at that and then go like, "Oh yeah, this has worked out very well." Just a thought.
Over the years, Smith has come out against the ’65 Immigration Act, the Civil Rights Act, the various social welfare programs enacted in Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society reforms, and now he’s finally spoken out against that gravest of social ills, gender equality. I can’t wait to see where he sets his sights next.
Seth Simons
