Jel

thread devolved into that almost immediately, but was not about that

Let me try to give another example, as not sure anyone who has replied gets my point:

I (anyone) live in a 1 bedroom house (has some other rooms in it, we'll call them parks and forests)
1 - 2 people live there comfortably
3 -6 people can live there at a push
7 - 15 people can live there if necessary... call it 20 people if you start using other rooms as sleeping quarters

Stick 39 people in it and see how it pans out with regards to simple stuff like kitchen and bathroom use. Or 78 people in a 2 bedroom house

Or 39 times the people in any area of land compared to 1 person in another equal sized area of land, but then also tell those other people they are whatever-ist for not wanting to keep upping their number of people sharing that same space and infrastructure.

Race, religion (even though I despise it), gender, height, age, odor, haircut, tit size, or whatever else you can think of... none of that is even a factor, simple logistics is. Express concern though about logistics, and suddenly you are a racist, xenophobe, sexist, or whatever other buzz-insult there is, with a dash of assumptions like 'that won't solve terrorism', or 'that won't solve idiots not being able to get a job', and so forth.

When science talks about future colonies in space because of Earth overcrowding it's exciting, when someone says 'wtf there are a fuckton of people in this one space' it's 'racist'.

Perfect example really of how the word (along with many other words) have lost true meaning through misuse and mis-labelling. <--- Down to the constant cycle of divisiveness created by population growth, amongst other reasons?