I'm aware, just saying that you can actually look at some demographic data and see trends, just not the demographic data that people from /pol/ look at.
They tend to see demographics as the poison and not the canary.
e.g. "birthrates declined sharply just before and immediately after the collapse of the USSR"
Would be interpreted as "low birthrates causes the collapse of the USSR and women should be inseminated by force to prevent cultural collapse"
Instead of "the conditions that led to the collapse of the USSR created material conditions that made the decision of having a child harder for many people".
It's important to not wholly dismiss demographics as a tool for understanding social dynamics, but don't fall into the trap of believing societal relations are driven by them and not the other way around.
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I'm aware, just saying that you can actually look at some demographic data and see trends, just not the demographic data that people from /pol/ look at.
They tend to see demographics as the poison and not the canary.
e.g. "birthrates declined sharply just before and immediately after the collapse of the USSR"
Would be interpreted as "low birthrates causes the collapse of the USSR and women should be inseminated by force to prevent cultural collapse"
Instead of "the conditions that led to the collapse of the USSR created material conditions that made the decision of having a child harder for many people".
It's important to not wholly dismiss demographics as a tool for understanding social dynamics, but don't fall into the trap of believing societal relations are driven by them and not the other way around.
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