The NFL wasn’t standing for this. The values of our society had to be affirmed against this renegade. The league’s senior vice president and chief diversity and inclusion officer, Jonathan Beane, announced Wednesday that "Harrison Butker gave a speech in his personal capacity. His views are not those of the NFL as an organization. The NFL is steadfast in our commitment to inclusion, which only makes our league stronger."
Yes, of course it does. Diversity is our strength, and all that. War is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is our strength, too. What is striking about Beane’s statement is not so much that the NFL has now distanced itself from a concept that most human beings took for granted as axiomatically true for millennia, but that it saw fit to condemn Butker....
the protesters don’t seem to be very fond of Jews. If you attend protests to meet girls, these may not be the types you want to meet your parents. Unless your parents happen to be actual Nazis — then boy, these are the protests for you!
And for those of us who are not Nazis... they are despicable.
The point is that the population collapse that I was writing about nearly 20 years ago, and that Philip Longman was writing about in Foreign Affairs even before that, has now become obvious to everyone. We’re headed for the biggest global population drop since the Black Death, and that’s going to produce dramatic social changes. (As indeed did the Black Death.)
The future does belong to those who show up, and those who show up are likely to have the attitudes that caused them to do so. So is Harrison Butker a harbinger? Quite probably.