Yesterday Xiaochen Su (Y' 10) incited furor when he penned a guest column for the Yale Daily News. In it he lamented America's "failure to control population growth" which will in turn force, "the government to spend more to evade riots by poor, hungry, unemployed minorities." Su's humane solution: after instituting a child tax, "welfare programs should be cut back and the cost of children's necessities, such as infants' formula and college education, should be raised in price."

Naturally there was some blowback in today's Letters to the Editor. Austen K. (Y '10) begins her strongly-worded epistle:

Don't throw the baby out with the bath water." That's the adage as I always heard it, but according to Xiaochen Su, we can't get rid of the babies fast enough. Forget the bath water, he implies, just start by chucking those little brown babies out the window!

She goes on to characterize Su's article as, "a racist plea that the U.S. government engage in ethnic cleansing," as well as to accuse him of painting, "a picture of non-whites as a ragged bunch of poor, uneducated, unintelligent, violent, lazy thieves, with the sole caveat, 'notwithstanding exceptions.'" Somewhat melodramatically, Austen K. asks, "Doesn't the sound of crying babies as they starve to death ring prettily in your capitalist pig ears?"

OK, OK, but Su's probably a good guy who just made a bad decision , no?

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Xiaochen Su (Yale '10), following the lead of misanthropic YDN contributor Jun Teresa Ding, has written an op/ed so ill-conceived, insensitive, and fundamentally absurd that you have to wonder if we aren't being treated to some elaborate hoax. It reads like an SAT-II writing exercise, as taken by Thomas Malthus in a bad mood.

Su is alarmed by America's, "increase in population, due to the failure to control population growth in the past." Even worse, Su reports:

"Statistics show that majority of U.S. population growth comes from immigration and high birth rate among the minorities, while the native Caucasian population is stabilizing."

Then Su reminds us why we don't like minorities again:

Notwithstanding exceptions, larger numbers of minorities are ill-educated, have less desirable jobs, and thus are less capable to financially sustain their livelihoods.

In fact, many more minorities depend on government welfare and low-income assistance than whites. Over time, jobs that require less skill will continue to decrease, being outsourced to developing countries with lower labor costs, and the percentage of minorities in the U.S. population will increase, forcing the government to spend much more to evade riots by poor, hungry, unemployed minorities.

The minorities are coming! The minorities are coming! Not to worry, though, Su has a radical solution to thin out the teeming underclasses. It's reminiscent of Communist China, so you know it's good. He want to eliminate the child tax-credit and replace it with... a child tax.

And if this doesn't work, true-born philanthrophist Su thinks that, "welfare programs should be cut back and the cost of children's necessities, such as infants' formula and college education, should be raised in price." He writes of, "extracting taxes and fees from the lower class and poor immigrants." Spoken like a true German bureaucrat. Unsurprisingly, Su is also against immigration by poor people:

"With no understanding of the country's economic dynamics, the poor continue to reproduce and immigrate to lightheartedly siphon off the state's budget."

Those poors, so lighthearted, so numerous, if only they understood this country's economic dynamics like our Great Leader Xiaochen Su.

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